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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I'm a portrait photographer that's used to shooting celebrities, and I usually need time and all kinds of lights and a studio to set up my shots.
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It's fantastic, are you kidding? To sort of be part of this project from the ground up, from the script form, and then for it to kind of do as well as it did in the States in the festivals, and come here; it's fantastic, it's wonderful.
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Look at all the magazines: There's always 10 ways to be better at something.
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I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of Warrior.' I'd write it beginning to end, but when I'd finished it, I was another year older. The quality of writing and thought changed radically, so I'd start it again. I re-wrote that same book until I was 16.
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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.
