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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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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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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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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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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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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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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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
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The dead don't die. They look on and help.
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Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution! The important thing is the revolutionary cause, revolutionary ideas, revolutionary objectives, revolutionary sentiments, revolutionary virtues!
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I believe in God, but I'm not dominated by it.
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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.
