Kate Atkinson Quotes

My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.

Kate Atkinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WomenTimeCompetitionWritingStory

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

Johann Lamont

HumilityPeopleLearnTalkListen

I think publishing's strength is also its weakness. It's got such a rich and celebrated history as an industry. For the most part, publishing people are incredibly creative, business is done based on the strength of relationships, and the product being peddled is books.

Jennifer Gilmore

StrengthBusinessHistoryCreative

I'm really addicted to water. I carry a bottle of water everywhere I go. I know people think I'm a nut.

Andie MacDowell

WaterPeopleThinkGoKnowCarry

Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.

May Sarton

YouHideSelf-RespectNothingNeed

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

Matthew Simpson

ChangeFaithKnowledgeUnderstandUs

I love photography - I fell in love with photography, I think, because it was my own thing, it wasn't something I needed other people's permission to do. So, it was really freeing for me actually to be able to not be a famous person and just to take pictures.

Amanda de Cadenet

LovePeopleMeThinkPhotography

I've had a lot of crappy jobs, but one of my favorites was working as a commercial fisherman in Alaska. What I loved about it was, you got paid for what you caught.

Jon Krakauer

LovedYouAlaskaGotPaidWorking

I'd been very certain about not wanting to do the acting thing because of my father. I thought I'd always have the father-son thing of 'He got you the part.'

Domhnall Gleeson

FatherThoughtYouActingAlwaysHe

Everyone needs to be proactive and know the various warning signs of cancer. Early detection and research to make detection easier at earlier stages, along with the treatments needs, is still a must. I salute all those winning the battle.

Dennis Franz

ResearchWinningBattleEarlyKnow

Game theory is a branch of, originally, applied mathematics, used mostly in economics and political science, a little bit in biology, that gives us a mathematical taxonomy of social life, and it predicts what people are likely to do and believe others will do in cases where everyone's actions affect everyone else.

Colin Camerer

LifeScienceMathematicsPeopleGame

Thousands of people seeing the same thing cannot all be wrong.

Art Bell

PeopleSeeingWrongSameCannot

I did grow up in a small town. I grew up in a lot of different places. But I consider my home to be Cleveland.

Alice Ripley

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