Garth Nix Quotes
'You're sure that we'll find someone suitable here?' 'Sure as eggs is eggs,' replied Sneezer. 'Surer even, eggs not always being what one might expect.'
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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Working with Disney is really and truly like working with a family. Everyone is so supportive and so wonderful. I've worked with Disney since I was twelve, and they've given me so many opportunities that I'll forever be grateful for.
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And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero.
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I can never really enjoy being famous.
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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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For 'Rosa Luxemburg,' I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got an understanding of her that I'd never had before.
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Judging ballplayers and turning in reports, giving my opinion of who will get to the big leagues and who will not... I think my baseball judgment was really good.
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It's lovely to be told you're wonderful by someone when you're used to being told how awful you are.
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My best vacation is somewhere I could hide, somewhere warm and not a lot of people around.
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The worst thing about all this staining power of the world is the way in which we come to think of it as inevitable. ... It is not true. ... Social life is lighted up with the lustre of the white, unstained robes of many a pure man or woman who walks through its very midst.
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My nervous energy is usually the easiest form of energy to tap into.
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'You're sure that we'll find someone suitable here?' 'Sure as eggs is eggs,' replied Sneezer. 'Surer even, eggs not always being what one might expect.'
