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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This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
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You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.
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When I did red, it was nine, and that was it for me. I said, "Here I am - nine is my number and red is my color, and I'm in business now.
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When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.
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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.
