Matt Haig Quotes
For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I'm very conscious of readers as I'm writing. I think, 'If you write for yourself, then why don't you just keep it under the bed,' so I definitely write for other people.Matt Haig
Quotes to Explore
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
Nargis Fakhri -
We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
Lal Bahadur Shastri -
We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
Ian Williams Battles -
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Saint Augustine -
And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
Frances Wright -
I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.
Adam Beach
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
Oded Fehr -
At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
Tea Leoni -
I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Math is one of my favorite subjects.
Macaulay Culkin -
I'm a normal person and I don't have superpowers! I do normal things, too.
Larisa Oleynik
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The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
Nancy Pearcey -
I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.
Sam Brownback -
The difference between 'Watchmen' and a normal comic book is this: With 'Batman's Gotham City,' you are transported to another world where that superhero makes sense; 'Watchmen' comes at it in a different way, it almost superimposes its heroes on your world, which then changes how you view your world through its prism.
Zack Snyder -
A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
Fiona Shaw -
India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.
Gary Ackerman -
In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children.
Oliver North
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My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.
John Cameron Mitchell -
In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits.
Eric Liu -
I was working my first adult job, a quasi journalistic job, writing content for a website. In the offices, we had banks of TVs, papers, a constant media stream, which was unusual for 2001.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
We are hopeful about the opportunities ahead, and stand ready to join this President in an open and honest dialogue about improving the state of our union for all Americans not the select few.
Jim Clyburn -
For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I'm very conscious of readers as I'm writing. I think, 'If you write for yourself, then why don't you just keep it under the bed,' so I definitely write for other people.
Matt Haig