Kate Atkinson Quotes
I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even a half-good sentence. So you recycle. I mean, I can hang on to a sentence for several years and then put it into a book that's completely different from the one it started in.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
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I certainly don't think that it's the job of any journalist to make the presidency work.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock... whatever you want to call it is OK with me.
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I love print fiction, but sometimes when I'm reading a good graphic novel or manga, I find myself envying those who work in an illustrated format.
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Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.
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I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even a half-good sentence. So you recycle. I mean, I can hang on to a sentence for several years and then put it into a book that's completely different from the one it started in.
