Susanna Clarke (Susanna Mary Clarke) Quotes
It seemed to me that you make magic real by making it a little prosaic, a little difficult and disappointing - never quite as glamorous as the other characters imagine.
Susanna Clarke
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
Oscar Isaac
I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
Vik Muniz
Many use Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes for daily transactions like going to theatres, malls, and trading purpose. People like these are unnecessarily put to inconvenience.
Vijay
I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
Fidel Castro
When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.
Wayne Rooney
Dinner parties are still highly popular, and I believe they always will be.
Yotam Ottolenghi
You've made my life so glamorous,You can't blame me for feeling amorous.'S wonderful, 's marvellousThat you should care for me.
Ira Gershwin
My God is none other than the people. Only the popular masses are omniscient and omnipotent and almighty on earth. Therefore my lifetime motto is: 'The people are my God.'
Kim Il-sung
'Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.'
Neil Gaiman
It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.
Mary Douglas
People assume I'm a boiler ready to explode, but I actually have very low blood pressure, which is shocking to people.
Donald Trump
When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.
Josh Turner
I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back, and they were voraciously hungry. They were heroes, pulling rubble, and I was a new comic trying to go blue just so I could get some laughs.
Chelsea Peretti
I don't think I set out to have a career in female groups, but it's just kind of happened, and by nature of having worked with my sister - growing up with a sister who also plays, and being in communication with other female musicians.
Emily Robison
But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.
Janice Dickinson
'Hotel Rwanda' is an American product, not a Rwandan one, made primarily for American audiences.
Lee Siegel
The orthopaedic surgeon said that if ever I had hip or groin pain, I should rest until the pain went. However, resting is not part of a dancer's life - so I just danced through the pain.
Darcey Bussell
I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.
Marian Keyes
It seems to me scarcely possible that one who has so long lived in sin, who has resisted so much light and has so often grieved away the Holy Spirit, as I have, should again be visited with its heavenly influences. But I hope it is so.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it.
Nicholas Sparks
Drifting in and out, you see the road you’re onIt came rolling down the cheekSay just what you need in between, it’s never as it seems
Victoria Legrand
Beach House
I would never bring a kid to a comedy show myself, but I have noticed that I can't stop other people from bringing their kids.
Kristen Schaal
But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them. "Think of all the trouble it saves," the man explained, and his face looked as if he'd be grinning an evil grin--if he could grin at all. "If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it weren't for that dreadful magic staff, you'd never know how much time you were wasting.
Norton Juster
It seemed to me that you make magic real by making it a little prosaic, a little difficult and disappointing - never quite as glamorous as the other characters imagine.
Susanna Clarke