Kate Atkinson Quotes
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
Quotes to Explore
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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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I am just like Dr. Armaan - fun-loving, flirtatious, and tension-free. I am serious about my work, but apart from that, I am always playing pranks on people. As a viewer, I relate more to 'Dil Mill Gayye.'
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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.
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I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.
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I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.
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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
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I've always prided myself on being myself and trying to stick true to who I am and how I was raised.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.
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Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!
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The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.
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The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.
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If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.
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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
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Come cook food with me and do nothing.
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The gay community has taken care of their issues and problems in terms of HIV/AIDS. They have done an incredible job. We as heterosexuals need to learn from the gay community because they have rallied together. They have sent a lot of information out there. They go get tested.
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I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. Some of the teachers were just doing their job, but others had that little extra. They really cared about children and they wore pretty dresses.
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Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
