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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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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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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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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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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Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.
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I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.
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It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and pot and it's okay, it's not completely bad and you can't say that to teenagers.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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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.
