Kate Atkinson Quotes
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All over the world, people are looking at India and saying 'wow', and that's because we have begun to say 'wow' ourselves.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
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At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person, don't forget you're a mother, don't forget you're a wife, don't forget you're a daughter.
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Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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I've got good speed off the edge.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.
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It is the responsibility of all the Sudanese, especially the political leaders and the media, to strengthen social cohesion through the proper understanding of the dynamics of unity, if they really want our country to remain united.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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Nothing is harder to see into thanpeoples nature. The sage looks at subtle phenomena and listens tosmall voices. This harmonizes the outside with the inside and the inside with the outside.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
