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Unless I tur... SALMAN KHAN CHEVY CHASE Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence ... PATRICK WHITE MARILYN MANSON I don't know if it's good or bad, but when I first started writing I imitated the narrative ... KEVIN WILSON E. L. DOCTOROW My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or ei... KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD I can't say that I fully relate to things that I play. Sometimes it's nice to spend half the... TAISSA FARMIGA VIVEK WADHWA GRETCHEN RUBIN PHIL COLLINS I don't like kids that are pushed into things by stage mums, but when I can see they are having ... SIMON COWELL STEWART BUTTERFIELD All through my life, I didn't really consider my eyes at all, and then I became an actress. It&#... ALICE EVE MICHELLE PFEIFFER MICHAEL HEIZER I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a projec... P. N. 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KATE ATKINSON Mum had a Charles-and-Diana wedding mug that had survived longer than the marriage itself. Mum had w... KATE ATKINSON He was born a politician.KATE ATKINSON Small boys were a mystery to Sylvie. The satisfaction they gained from throwing sticks or stones for... KATE ATKINSON You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be li... KATE ATKINSON I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. M... KATE ATKINSON Teddy thought of his wife and his sister as two sides of the same shining coin. Nancy was an idealis... KATE ATKINSON Amelia envisaged that between York and the royal-infested Scottish Highlands there was a grimy waste... KATE ATKINSON Without siblings you get quite a skewed vision of yourself and of the world. I always felt I didn... KATE ATKINSON Oh, how he missed his sister. Out of everyone, the legions of the dead, the numberless infinities of... KATE ATKINSON She fed him scraps from her ragbag because words were all that were left now. Perhaps he could use t... KATE ATKINSON After Marlee was born they rented videos and fell asleep in front of them. Now, like so much else in... KATE ATKINSON So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements. KATE ATKINSON In the half-century of his life, a tick on the Doomsday clock, he had borne witness to the most unbe... KATE ATKINSON ...and no man gave you a fur coat without expecting to receive something in return. Except for one's... KATE ATKINSON Scars heal,” Sylvie said. “Even the worst ones. KATE ATKINSON I have realized over time that I missed the mark with HyperCard. I grew up in a box-centric culture ... BILL ATKINSON ROWAN ATKINSON I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work. BROOKS ATKINSON The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but t... 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MARK ATKINSON It's more likely to be brought in by the illegal movement of birds and bird products. MARK ATKINSON Teaching and learning go hand and hand and to achieve student learning I believe that it is essentia... MICHAEL ATKINSON You do whatever you can either to maintain an edge or to get an edge and for men now, it's not like ... MICHAEL ATKINSON One of the biggest drivers in the male marketplace now in cosmetic surgery is men who are 40-plus wh... MICHAEL ATKINSON Teaching is the single most important thing we do here at the University. To cultivate knowledge and... MICHAEL ATKINSON Traditionally, women have done cosmetic surgery to be competitive along beauty standards. Now men ar... MICHAEL ATKINSON They used to throw this stuff away. LEO ATKINSON I was a little country hick boy. LEO ATKINSON Half of my fun is procuring (sculpture materials), getting (them) back here and seeing what fits tog... LEO ATKINSON It's like Christmas. Everything is real, but not as it seems. LEO ATKINSON I am blessed to have first been a salesperson. LEO ATKINSON It's about always showing new stuff. Do not become stagnant. LEO ATKINSON I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you... GORDON ATKINSON When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things. GORDON ATKINSON Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes t... GORDON ATKINSON Im telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe Im discovering that things were never i... GORDON ATKINSON It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is rig... GORDON ATKINSON Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you. GORDON ATKINSON One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'... GORDON ATKINSON The human heart cannot love the whole world. And if you try to put the whole world into your heart, ... GORDON ATKINSON Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of the needs of others in your fa... GORDON ATKINSON See things as they are and write about them. Dont waste your creative energy trying to make things... GORDON ATKINSON If you want to write you must have faith in yourself. Faith enough to believe that if a thing is tru... GORDON ATKINSON Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whisperin... GORDON ATKINSON One of the joys we have in being human is in exercising our freedom to choose and to take each case ... GORDON ATKINSON Knowing that there is worse pain doesn't make present pain hurt any less. GORDON ATKINSON I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud. GORDON ATKINSON External signs of wealth and success are often cheap storefronts that hide internal mediocrity or ev... GORDON ATKINSON Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers. BROOKS ATKINSON In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For ev... BROOKS ATKINSON You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a womans name and claim to love her. GORDON ATKINSON When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship. GORDON ATKINSON There isnt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with p... GORDON ATKINSON This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same. GORDON ATKINSON You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone. GORDON ATKINSON I dont think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot ... GORDON ATKINSON I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose ... GORDON ATKINSON This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youre doing, or ... GORDON ATKINSON I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you ... GORDON ATKINSON Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go. GORDON ATKINSON My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful ... GORDON ATKINSON Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing. GORDON ATKINSON The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush ... GORDON ATKINSON ROWAN ATKINSON ROWAN ATKINSON
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