Garth Nix Quotes
I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
-
Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
-
I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
-
I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
-
I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!
-
Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
-
People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
-
I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
-
I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
-
My schedule is too overwhelmingly full to think about the future.
-
If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'
-
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
-
Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
-
Hope is not a matter of age.
-
I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.
-
I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
-
It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
-
When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
-
Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?
-
I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
-
I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking.
-
If you're a film fan, collecting video is sort of like marijuana. Laser discs, they're definitely cocaine. Film prints are heroin, all right? You're shooting smack when you start collecting film prints. So, I kinda got into it in a big way, and I've got a pretty nice collection I'm real proud of.
-
Keep your heels, head & standards high!
-
I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
