Kate Atkinson Quotes
When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.
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'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.
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I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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I said the screen will kill the reader, and it has: the movie screen in the beginning, the television screen, and now the coup de grace, the computer screen.
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The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.
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When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.
