Charles Palliser Quotes

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'

Charles Palliser

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• Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • You
  • Now
  • London

• To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • World
  • Nice
  • Myself

• A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Together
  • Taken
  • Ability

• I learned a lot doing 'Wolverine,' and I was also very fortunate, in the sense that I got to do a huge number of visual effects shots.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Doing
  • Shots
  • Visual

• I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.

  

  Verite
  • Up
  • You
  • Day

• What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Want
  • Expectations
  • My Own

• It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Men
  • Girl
  • Woman

• A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Up
  • Good
  • Done

• The marathon always starts after 30K. That's where the problems start. You start without any problems, without any pain. All the pain comes after 30K. Sometimes, it's possible to have pain even in the finger.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Pain
  • Problems
  • Start

• Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • People
  • World
  • Feel

• I would put myself towards left of center.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Myself
  • Left
  • Center

• Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • She
  • Truth
  • Woman

• One thinks with awe and longing of this real and extraordinary popularity of hers Edna St. Vincent Millay’s: if there were some poet-Frost, Stevens, Eliot-whom people still read in canoes!

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • People
  • Real

• The youth was a cretin, and didn’t even realize that he was. He could think of no more disastrous combination.

  

  Iain Banks

• Defend your opinion only if it can be shown to be true, not because it is your opinion.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • True
  • Opinion

• To know yourself less beloved than you love, is a dreadful feeling

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Feeling

• One thing I like about historical fiction is that I'm not constantly focusing on me, or people like me; you're obliged to concentrate on lives that are completely other than your own.

  

  Emma Donoghue
  • People

• I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

  

  Alexia Fast
  • Life
  • Time

• I think that every film should have its own structure, and that's the beauty of film language - is that we get to express that deeply individualistic side of ourselves.

  

  Brian Lindstrom
  • Film
  • Structure
  • Film language

• Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Americans
  • Congress
  • Washington

• At first, I didn't know what an actor was. I thought it was an acrobat. I saw acrobats at the circus, and I thought that was interesting. In my head, that was what I imagined I wanted to be when I grew up. Then I realized what an actor was, and I've gravitated to it ever since.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Know

• I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'

  

  Charles Palliser