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.
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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.
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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!
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I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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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.
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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.
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Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
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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.
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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.
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I love 'Glee' so much. It just works - it's on the edge of ridiculous.
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The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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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.
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I love clothes! I'll wear anything from Urban Outfitters or American Apparel.
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I have so many gay friends that I love.
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If I could kidnap Bryan Doyle-Murray and force him to be in my family, I would. I love him; I really do.
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The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.
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I've only ever written two or three song parts in my life ... Er, no, actually I wrote the entire Slang album, but the band will never admit to that! I don't mind carrying those deadweights - at least they're decent company. I wish I'd written 'Happy Birthday', just for the royalties.
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It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.
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Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
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Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.
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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.
