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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 20, 1951

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A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.

Jerry Saltz

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Americans have always understood the danger of mobs. They are always dangerous; they are always demonic.

Ann Coulter

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There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense.

Jeannette Rankin

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Scientology is one of the least homophobic religions. It's not very interested in the body at all.

John Travolta

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It's been cool to watch the fans who've kind of always been there for me. That's just a special feeling every night: to go out and know that there is people that are proud, not just to be at the show but proud to be your fan, and they're invested in what you're doing.

Luke Combs

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I don't like post-modernism. It's cynical, and takes no discipline - you just copy. It doesn't allow a film to be open to reality.

Luca Guadagnino

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I don't get jealous of people. Jealousy is such a waste of time because you're jealous of them, and they go about their lives and have a wonderful time, so what's the point?

Joy Behar

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When I'm home, I'm just mom. We're a normal, regular family doing normal, regular types of things.

Lisa Vidal

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The skating community is very fickle. And with me, they're especially fickle for whatever reason. Maybe I bring it on myself, but if you don't prove yourself and you don't skate consistently, then they can very easily write you off and bring somebody from behind you and put them in your place.

Johnny Weir

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We have doctors and lawyers and CEOs as fans.

Johnny Van Zant

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The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.

Dennis Prager

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It's a particularly modern myth that married people are best friends. The best-friend concept is a uniquely female phenomena.

Deborah Tannen

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