Nick Hornby (Nicholas Peter John Hornby) Quotes

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

Nick Hornby

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• To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • School
  • Student
  • Chemistry

• Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Me
  • Present
  • Gift

• Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Me
  • Struggle
  • Easy

• Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Long
  • Job
  • Movie

• I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Wealth

• I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Never
  • Underestimate

• And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Truth
  • Today

• I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Money
  • Artist
  • Entrepreneur

• Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Trying
  • Popular
  • Belief

• I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Young
  • Television
  • Act

• I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • People
  • Up
  • Working Class

• Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Important
  • Art
  • Society

• I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Friendships

• Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • World
  • Man
  • Black

• I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Figures
  • 20th Century

• Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Years
  • Youth
  • United Nations

• The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Men
  • Single
  • Same

• It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Single
  • Information
  • Changes

• We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there are no consequences. If you are poor man and you steal, your hand is cut off after three offences. But if you are a rich man, nobody will say anything to you.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Up
  • Man
  • Hand

• I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Play
  • Wife
  • Queen

• I know many sports fans that don't enjoy soccer. The argument is that there's no action, not enough of it.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Action
  • Sports
  • Soccer

• Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Alone
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

  

  Nick Hornby
  • Yourself
  • Piece
  • Rebuild