Garth Nix Quotes
'Wake me when what terrible thing is going to happen, happens, or if it appears I might get wet.'
Quotes to Explore
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
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I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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I think it's a tough transition. It's easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.
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I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my living. So maybe I should try to do television and film and make a better living and get an occasional residual check so I can pay a mortgage someday.
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I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.
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I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.
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I do not believe in the concept of good and evil in my personal life, in the real world. I just don't believe it. I never try to judge.
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I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
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Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.
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If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.
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I hope readers will think that 'The Thing About Life' is beautifully patterned, a tapestry.
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'Wake me when what terrible thing is going to happen, happens, or if it appears I might get wet.'
