Garth Nix Quotes
Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.
Quotes to Explore
-
Even when something sad or tragic happens, I find a way to look at it in a positive light. People who don't have a sense of humor must be so sad all the time.
-
Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
-
I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.
-
Love can never be fully explained.
-
When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
-
I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.
-
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
-
We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
-
It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
-
I love 'Glee' so much. It just works - it's on the edge of ridiculous.
-
The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
-
I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
-
History is more interesting than most people think.
-
Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.
-
I love clothes! I'll wear anything from Urban Outfitters or American Apparel.
-
I have so many gay friends that I love.
-
If I could kidnap Bryan Doyle-Murray and force him to be in my family, I would. I love him; I really do.
-
People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spending, cut taxes, that will focus on private-sector job creation.
-
I don't know whether other people should or shouldn't pay taxes. I know I can, and I am willing, to pay more taxes. I know I should not get Social Security. I don't need it.
-
I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.
-
If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it.
-
I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.
-
When I write, I just let my characters go, the way I let life go.
-
Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.
