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When Im writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I cant read. I ca

When Im writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I cant read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day. – Kate Atkinson

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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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Education
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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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I used to eat because food tastes so good. I love food, its one of the best things on this planet. But I changed the way I was thinking. I started asking myself, Hey, am I eating because it tastes good? Or because I really need some more? Am I really still hungry? – Jordin Sparks

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People ask me how I keep my figure, and I tell them its because I paint. When youre covered in paint, its quite hard to put food in your mouth! – Jane Seymour

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I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good. – Virgil Thomson

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But its really hard to eat good when youre traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant. – Nicole Polizzi

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An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold. – Chinese Proverb

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My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do. – Stephanie Tubbs Jones

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