Kristian Nairn Quotes

I haven't read more than two pages, but my mother is a George Martin super fan.

Kristian Nairn

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• In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.

  

  Wayne Allard
  • Country
  • Business
  • Growth

• Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Up
  • Different
  • Like

• Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Hair

• You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Want
  • You
  • Know

• I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Freedom
  • Creative
  • Someone

• You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • You
  • Without
  • Basics

• I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Fear
  • Pride
  • Gratitude

• I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Balance

• Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Moving
  • Two
  • Japanese

• Historically, the 19th century is defined by annexations and internal turmoil. For instance, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 gave more than half of Mexican territory to the United States.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • More
  • United States
  • Mexican

• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Winter
  • Roots

• Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Suffering
  • Things
  • Silent

• Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbor and playing in the beautiful parks.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Growing

• Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Failure
  • Street
  • Detour

• Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

  

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade
  • Poetry
  • Poet
  • Necessary

• Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Reading

• I have no doubt, if people are really seeking the big questions, it will lead them to the Lord.

  

  Eric Metaxas
  • People
  • Doubt

• I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

  

  Heather Matarazzo
  • Irish
  • Italian
  • Jewish

• She remembered that once, when she was a little girl, she had seen a pretty young woman with golden hair down to her knees in a long flowered dress, and had said to her, without thinking, "Are you a princess?" The girl had laughed very kindly at her and asked her what her name was. Blanche remembered going away from her, led by her mother's hand, thinking to herself that the girl really was a princess, but in disguise. And she had resolved that someday, she would dress as though she were a princess in disguise.

  

  Regina Doman
  • Mother
  • Girl
  • Woman

• I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?"

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Writing
  • Excitement
  • Page

• I haven't read more than two pages, but my mother is a George Martin super fan.

  

  Kristian Nairn
  • Mother