Garth Nix Quotes
In any genre you're working in, you can always find a way to tell a particular kind of story. I love fantasy; I love science fiction. I love all kinds of fiction, in fact.
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
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Face your fear, empty yourself, trust your own voice, let go of control, have faith in outcomes, connect with a larger purpose, derive meaning from the struggle.
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I do believe if we opened up a comedy theater in a city, that we're going to be able to teach improv better than whoever's there already. In general, I think I could say that.
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Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.
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You can't fake being able to cook well.
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There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the fantasy of rock & roll, I mean, it's a really vulnerable place to be in. It's a huge thing to do.
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In any genre you're working in, you can always find a way to tell a particular kind of story. I love fantasy; I love science fiction. I love all kinds of fiction, in fact.
