Dorothy Atkinson Quotes
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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I do feel that I need to do at least one more Western - I think you need to make three Westerns to call yourself a Western director.
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I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.
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No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.
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If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else.
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I just love playing characters that are a long way away from me.
