Garth Nix Quotes
'Lieutenant Crosshaw says you are a special case!' bellowed Helve. 'I do not like special cases! Special cases do not make good soldiers! Special cases do not help other recruits become good soldiers! Therefore, you will not be a special case! You understand me!' 'I think so-' 'Shut up! That was not a question!'
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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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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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.
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Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.
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Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
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I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
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Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.
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I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.
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I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
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I have always had a ridiculous fear that I will walk into the bathroom one morning and find a python in my toilet.
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After the dotcom boom blew up, it increased the focus on questions like, 'Why should I trust you to help run my business? How do I know you're not going to go away like every other company?' That was hard. We had to keep proving ourselves.
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We're all a mishmash of extremes. I know that I have demons. I don't know if I want to get rid of them altogether, but I would like to experience them in a different way. Maybe go face to face with them. I've never really had the time to go to therapy. Well, here and there. But not enough to help me.
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'Lieutenant Crosshaw says you are a special case!' bellowed Helve. 'I do not like special cases! Special cases do not make good soldiers! Special cases do not help other recruits become good soldiers! Therefore, you will not be a special case! You understand me!' 'I think so-' 'Shut up! That was not a question!'
