Kate Atkinson Quotes
Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.
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I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.
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My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
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It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?
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I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
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We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
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Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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I like the effect drink has on me.
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If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.
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My father died when I was seven. I guess I am interested in fatherlessness as a metaphor for vulnerability and unprotectedness. Being on your own in the world in a way you're not quite ready for, ever.
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Football is a team sport, and there is no one individual who is bigger than the next person.
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It is important to exhaust the potential of existing markets. But it is equally important to open up new markets.
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By these criteria let Alexander also be judged! For from his words, from his deeds, and from the instruction' which he imparted, it will be seen that he was indeed a philosopher.
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Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.
