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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We are born with two kidneys and only need one to survive. Maybe God gave us the other one so that we could give it away.
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It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.
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I believed I was invincible.
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Short fiction encourages experimentation, and it's fun to play with form and try experiments that may or may not work out.
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You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
