Nicholas Royle Quotes

I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

Nicholas Royle

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• I run Willow Management, which is the biggest agency for other short actors. We look after performers who are either under five feet and over seven feet tall.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Management
  • Feet
  • Short

• The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Rain
  • Short
  • Forest

• I'm pretty obsessed with Sara Bareilles. She is so talented, and I feel like I would learn so much from her.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Obsessed
  • Talented
  • Sara Bareilles

• I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Political

• I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.

  

  Kaskade
  • World
  • Best
  • Always

• I actually always had short hair as a kid, and it's really liberating. I recommend it. It's just very easy. I don't have to brush it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Hair
  • Easy
  • Short

• I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • Happy
  • Culture
  • Way

• Maybe it's because I was named for him, but I've always wanted to meet Nathaniel Hawthorne. It's oversimplifying, but all Hawthorne's short stories and novels are, in one way or another, about guilt. Something profoundly disturbing must have happened to him at an early age. I'd like to know what that was.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Age
  • Short
  • Guilt

• You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always thought about that. And it's a very difficult career, a short career, as a pro athlete.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Career
  • Teacher
  • Thought

• The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are still developing and in the future become very big. Why did the Arabic world love Al Jazeera? Everybody felt he was represented in the newsroom and on the screen. That kind of belonging is ours.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Future
  • Famous

• I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Great
  • Long

• My life is short. I can't listen to banality.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Short
  • Life Is Short

• Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wilde's books in a bookshop makes me smile.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Respect
  • Smile
  • Short

• Nastia Liukin, I was obsessed with her. And I say was, but really am obsessed with her. She's just so amazing.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Amazing
  • Say
  • Really

• I feel... sexier, I think, with short hair. I feel like an alien!

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Hair
  • Short
  • Alien

• Maybe storytelling belongs in audio - a short story is the length of a commute. That can be a sacred spot where you have the ear of the reader without having to compete with other media like games or TV.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • You
  • Media
  • Short

• In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn't fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • City
  • Short
  • Insanity

• It's always important for a coach to decide on the short term and long term - one factor doesn't block out the other.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Important
  • Long
  • Short

• I train five days a week hard - but it is short and sharp - 30 to 40 minutes of functional and pretty dynamic body-strength circuits, then I do a good yoga session on the sixth day, then I rest.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Day

• I have to go with what I do, and what I do has more to do with what people say to each other than telling a story through images. Of course, you're trying to do both. And there are some people who are brilliant at it, but I don't consider myself to be particularly good at it. My mind gets into a verbal mode.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Children
  • Smart
  • Stories

• My fall began, as many stories do, with a girl.

  

  Julie Kagawa
  • Girl
  • Stories

• Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Teach

• I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

  

  Nicholas Royle
  • Stories
  • Short
  • Obsessed