Garth Nix Quotes
Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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If you think about what folks have been doing for 20 or 30 years, they have been bottling frustration and resentment that the political elites don't understand them, that the political elites don't care about them, that the political elites judge them in various ways. All Donald Trump does is provide the opposite of those things.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
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I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.
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I'm not disappointed (at not leading), I'm just trying my best.
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I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
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But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.
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I must say, I am thrilled with my fan base. For some reason some of them are quite young, so they are quite frightened. I remember when I did 'Click' and I'd see Adam Sandler's fan base. He's the guy that people feel that he's their best friend, so he's walking down the street and people sort of high five him and want to tell him a joke or invite him to come home and have a sandwich with them. Mine are not like that. Mine tend to go: 'Argh,' and look horrified. They shake and take a picture from a really long way away. I do feel I've got quite good, respectful ones though.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
