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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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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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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I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
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I like the effect drink has on me.
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It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
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Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.
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'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'
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The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.
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It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
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There is no right in acting.
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I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.
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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.
