Quote by Kate Atkinson
Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they dont confo

Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination – they dont conform to the reality thats around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress. – Kate Atkinson

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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes. – Kate Atkinson

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Death
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Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. Theres nothing that says I cant write a page of full stops. There is no should involved, although you wouldnt know that from literary reviews and critics. – Kate Atkinson

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Freedom
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My father was an autodidact. It wasnt a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education – he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasnt allowed to go. – Kate Atkinson

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I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, Im in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim. – Juno Temple

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Theres no environment. Use your imagination. Theres no fourth wall, whether its the first time youve told this story about her life, or the sixth time. – Jill Clayburgh

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Imagination

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability. – Thomas Huxley

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Imagination

You never quite know whats going to strike your imagination, or something that wont going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me. – Peter Shaffer

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The education of a man is never completed until he dies. – Robert E. Lee

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Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage. – Sydney J. Harris

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I dont want young people to think they cant make a difference because they dont have money. – Kesha

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