Kate Atkinson Quotes

Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.

Kate Atkinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I don't exactly set out to only play creepy characters, it's just that a lot of those roles come my way.

Jodelle Ferland

PlayWayOutComeOnlyJust

I have two passports because I have to have at least one, and I really don't know how I define myself. And I feel that as I get older, I feel very fortunate to have, on paper, a dual nationality.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

John Frusciante

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Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.

Robert Kennedy

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I'm confident that we have measures in place. And the additional measures that we announced yesterday will be even more protective of our food supply in this country.

Ann Veneman

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My father instilled attention to detail and a sense of duty and responsibility.

Ronnie Corbett

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Some of those STINKIN' press people just had to make fun of my decision in joining the show. They also made fun of other choices in my life that I was proud of then and still am now!!!

Ruth Buzzi

LifeDecisionFunPeopleProudNow

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.

Mary Catherine Bateson

WomanManWishesNiceMatterShe

The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.

Josiah Royce

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On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will have the certitude that such could not happen.

Philippe Petit

HopeLongWillWindsHappenHigh

Every soldier, every cop who's faced with a decision to make, a life or death, does the best he or she can.

Peter T. King

LifeDecisionBestDeathSheCop

I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.

Penn Jillette

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