Garth Nix Quotes

In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.

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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.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Strong

• A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

  

  Patricia Neal
  • Strong
  • Wonder
  • Positive

• When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Strong
  • Enough
  • Achieve

• 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.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Earth

• Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Writing
  • Being
  • Try

• Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Strong
  • Feel
  • Enough

• Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Strong
  • Woman
  • Strong Woman

• 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.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Strong

• 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!

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • People
  • You
  • Environment

• 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.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Culture

• I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Me
  • Try
  • Escape

• 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.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Past
  • Strong
  • Self

• How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.

  

  Barbara Pym
  • Love
  • Should
  • Try

• I like to try all kinds of styles so it always challenges me and forces me to try to look different.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Me
  • Look
  • Challenges

• I just think that is so important to keep a strong support system, to keep yourself encouraged.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Support

• The one thing that's going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Business
  • True
  • Strong

• 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.

  

  Carl Weathers
  • Start
  • Try
  • Back

• It's another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good, strong technique, your feet should be fine.

  

  Deborah Bull
  • Good
  • Strong

• It is tempting to call for better leadership, but we probably expect too much from the leaders of the nations. Those nations are too big, the connections not strong enough, the commitment to the future not long enough. It is better to look smaller, to our now-smaller organisations, to local communities and cities, to families and clusters of friends, to small networks of portfolio people with time to give to something bigger than themselves. We have to fashion our own directions in our own places.

  

  Charles Handy
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Most coaches would consider leading a team to an Olympic gold medal a capper for a pretty good year. The same goes for winning an NCAA national championship. Or a FIBA world championship. Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the Duke Blue Devils and Team USA, led teams to each of these honors... within about 24 months.

  

  Don Yaeger
  • World
  • Good
  • Pretty

• Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • Different
  • Will
  • Without

• In all my books, I try to have a strong element of realism underlying the fantastic.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Strong
  • Try
  • Realism