Kate Atkinson Quotes
Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the character and what they want to show to the world, and what they are feeling at that time.
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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I keep on saying, being moderate is fundamental to Islam.
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I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
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Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
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Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.
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How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
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'Broadway Bound' is near and dear to my heart, as it was one of my happiest times on Broadway.
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I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.
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As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
