Kate Atkinson Quotes
Without siblings you get quite a skewed vision of yourself and of the world. I always felt I didn't understand how it worked. I remember feeling quite lonely.
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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Elves are cool, man.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.
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To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
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Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
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I've always had a complicated relationship with sleep. Even as a little kid, I never wanted to go to bed - it always seemed unfair in some way.
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Don't give tips to friends who are about to have babies unless they ask!
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Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.
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Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
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But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now.
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In my end is my beginning.
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Without siblings you get quite a skewed vision of yourself and of the world. I always felt I didn't understand how it worked. I remember feeling quite lonely.
