Garth Nix Quotes
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I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.
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I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
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A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
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I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.
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Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.
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Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
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Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.
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How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
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I like to try all kinds of styles so it always challenges me and forces me to try to look different.
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I just think that is so important to keep a strong support system, to keep yourself encouraged.
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The one thing that's going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.
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When I start to get that few pounds, which I try to monitor, then I just pull back. So it's really just being conscious.
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Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
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Women tear each other apart.
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I don't really remember the day we lost our home in the floods, but looking back I can understand how devastating it was for my parents. I was only six, so I remember us having to move to Adelaide - but not much of the actual day and night of the flood. We had to start all over again and my parents opened a cafe.
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People lead complicated lives and aren't hanging on your every word or the company mission statement. You have to become a broken record of your expectations of the organization and show people why it is relevant and how it works in specific ways.
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Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.
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In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.
