Garth Nix Quotes
I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
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Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
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We provide business advice and guidance. We started it here in India first, and now we have taken it globally. India was the first for startup incubation in the world for us.
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I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understanding of what dialogue's easy to say and hard to say - I think that that's helpful, too.
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I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.
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I like taking up challenges. I prefer working with scripts that are different and veer from the tried and tested. So far, it's always worked.
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In politics, my role model would be a very weird one - our second emperor, Pedro the Second. He was a person with no vanity. He cared a lot about the public interest. He cared a lot about Brazil evolving as an important country. And he didn't ask much for himself. He was ousted from power, and he lived with the help of friends in Paris.
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I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated.
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When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.
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I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time.
