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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I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.
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In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.
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I still use a lot of good values from growing up in the Church, and there was a sense of community. But you were also being heavily judged by people that wanted to look down on you for not being as great as they are.
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It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.
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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.
