Kate Atkinson Quotes
When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.
![Kate Atkinson](http://cdn.citatis.com/img/a/a/1802.v4.jpg)
Quotes to Explore
-
'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
-
A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
-
Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
-
I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
-
The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
-
I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
-
When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
-
Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
-
I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.
-
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
-
I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
-
I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
-
Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
-
Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
-
You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
-
I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks.
-
The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
-
We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
-
I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.
-
Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.
-
Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.
-
And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change.
-
Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
-
When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.