Kate Atkinson Quotes
Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at about six, and I was playing with... I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.
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The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism.
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The biggest culprits in the housing fiasco came from the private sector, and more specifically from a mortgage industry that was out of control.
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It's definitely attractive when a man can dress well.
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We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.
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If you hear on the weather report that it's going to rain tomorrow, rather than reminding yourself to bring your umbrella, set the umbrella by the front door - now the environment is reminding you to bring the umbrella.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
