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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My #1 driving force is my lord and savior Jesus Christ. Also my family, my wife and children.
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One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.
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Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.
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What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.
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Kids feel like they have to puff up or shrink. These reclusive qualities begin to develop because you feel that who you are is going to either be accepted or rejected by your family and friends.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
