Garth Nix Quotes
'They could have attacked us straight away. And Fred wanted to be one, so they can't be all bad.' 'I wanted to be a Nithling with three heads once, so that's no guarantee,' whispered Suzy as she lay down and raised her arms and feet. 'What's more, after a washing between the ears I thought it was possible.'
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A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's just what I really like to do: taking what I had at the beginning, which is classical and jazz influences, and putting it into electro.
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With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.
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There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.
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I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
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Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.
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You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.
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I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.
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I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.
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If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. And then he will write you a letter, which is incredibly rare and incredibly classy. Unfortunately, I can't be that removed from technology.
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Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
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There is something enormously compelling about Fran Cutler. She is a thrilling bundle of energy and enthusiasm.
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She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's.
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If you hold on to certain things that are comfortable and maybe a bad pattern for you psychologically, then you rob yourself of the experience of the next thing that happens when you do start to let go. It's only by trusting that, and by the leaps of faith, that you remember that's true.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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Wow, wow, wow! I never imagined meatless meals could be so satisfying.
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'They could have attacked us straight away. And Fred wanted to be one, so they can't be all bad.' 'I wanted to be a Nithling with three heads once, so that's no guarantee,' whispered Suzy as she lay down and raised her arms and feet. 'What's more, after a washing between the ears I thought it was possible.'
