Garth Nix Quotes
Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.Garth Nix
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We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.
Ingvar Kamprad -
After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
Fat Joe -
Where most of the country is, well, hot - from the bone-baking dry heat of the desert to the flesh-melting humidity of Kerala in the south - Kashmir is cool: so cool, in fact, that in the winter, the temperatures can sink to sub-zero.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
Pamela Stephenson -
The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
Gary Lineker -
I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
Omari Hardwick
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I'm regularly speaking at London Business School and Harvard Business School. They're the next generation of leaders in the fashion industry.
Imran Amed -
I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.
Barkhad Abdi -
I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.
Walton Goggins -
I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
Wendell Wilkie -
After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
Walter Gropius
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
Barbara Sukowa -
My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
Jack Adams -
It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
Halsey -
My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
Ed Asner -
I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
Wendy Davis -
At school, I always felt the art room was the place where you could sit and talk. It was a place of solace. I wasn't the best artist at school by a long shot; it was more the understanding and the support that came from that room.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
Quintilian -
My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
Halle Berry -
To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
Taisen Deshimaru -
You work for whatever you get in life.
Karl Malone -
When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it.
Samuel Fuller -
Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.
Garth Nix