Garry Disher Quotes
A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.Garry Disher
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
Taylor Kinney -
I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
Sam Smith -
And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.
Ed Gillespie -
My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
Jack Dempsey -
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Saint Augustine
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Wayne Dyer -
Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
Gabrielle Union -
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
G. H. Hardy -
Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
Wayne Newton -
College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
Hank Johnson -
There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.
Victoria Strauss
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
Imtiaz Ali -
I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
Malik Jackson -
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. Henry -
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
M. H. Abrams -
Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.
Damian Woetzel -
If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.
Tadashi Yanai
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If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven.
Mary Berry -
It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
Oliver Ellsworth -
'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
Zachary Quinto -
You take souls for vegetables.... The gardener can decide what will become of his carrots but no one can choose the good of others for them.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction. * * * A name "fast anchored in the deep abyss of time" is like a star twinkling in the firmament, cold, silent, distant, but eternal and sublime; and our transmitting one to posterity is as if we should contemplate our translation to the skies.
William Hazlitt -
A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
Garry Disher