Kate Atkinson Quotes
Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' – you are inhabiting that 'I.'Kate Atkinson
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
Dag Hammarskjold -
The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
Fedor Emelianenko -
Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
Lane Garrison -
What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
J. August Richards -
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
Saint Ignatius -
My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.
Karen Duffy
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The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.
Ziggy Marley -
I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
Raekwon -
You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
Dan Aykroyd -
I'm only an actor. I'm not a writer. I'm not going to leave any legacy. All I've ever done is learn the lines and say them.
Ian Mckellen -
In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
Carl Wilson -
All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
Ralph Bakshi
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
Jack Nicholson -
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
Barbara Tuchman -
You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
W. C. Fields -
Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
Eddie Bracken -
I am a believer in the journey and enjoying the journey.
Uday Kotak
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Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?
Andrei Tarkovsky -
It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.
Maluma -
I don't know how much more what I've done is any more important than what Ella Fitzgerald did. Ella crossed those lines, as did George Benson before me. There've been lots of people who brought a pop audience to jazz because they were able to link the two and give people easy access to the world of jazz.
Al Jarreau -
We all hate on ourselves way too much, and there are so many people who think they have to look like those women on TV. That's so unreasonable. Everybody is supposed to be a different size. And if I can just be confident in myself, then I'll look better. It's quantum physics!
Lisa Ann Walter -
Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' – you are inhabiting that 'I.'
Kate Atkinson