Kate Atkinson Quotes
I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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It's so important to get your skin to look even, whether it's with a MAC Cosmetics glow, a Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer, or even just a solid foundation. Start off with a good prep and a good primer.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
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The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.
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I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.
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Rehearsals are one of my favourite things in the world.
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I love to sleep. I'd sleep all day if I could.
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I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
