Matthew Reilly Quotes
What I do is write books for an audience that thinks in a movie language. That's the way I think, and I also believe that not enough authors keep up with the audience.
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The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be given the opportunity and the incentive to do for himself what the white man has done for himself.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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As a former teacher and someone who has devoted her entire career to children and public schools, I understand the pain and frustration of parents who feel their children are not receiving the education they deserve.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.
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There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
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I had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought - bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic.
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Years ago on TV, I played people like Doc Holliday and Jesse James on Westerns.
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That's what's wrong with the people in this world; they believe they can do well by just getting by when they need to aim for the highest.
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We're very good at telling what happens and showing people while it happens... But sometimes television fails to take the time to say 'Why did it happen? What does it mean?' - To step back a little bit.
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What I do is write books for an audience that thinks in a movie language. That's the way I think, and I also believe that not enough authors keep up with the audience.
