Garth Nix Quotes
'No!' shouted Arthur. 'What's wrong with you? They're people! You can't just kill hundreds or thousands of Piper's children because the Piper might... just might... make some of them do something!' 'Can't we?' asked Dame Primus. She sounded genuinely puzzled.
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The world is always in movement.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.
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I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
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I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
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Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.
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If you try to breastfeed and it's not working, then you don't feel particularly good about yourself.
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You have to be crazy to do theater.
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The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.
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Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.
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The word "necessary" is miserably applied. It disordereth families, and overturneth government, by being so abused. Remember that children and fools want everything because they want judgment to distinguish; and therefore there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a catalogue of things necessary.
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'No!' shouted Arthur. 'What's wrong with you? They're people! You can't just kill hundreds or thousands of Piper's children because the Piper might... just might... make some of them do something!' 'Can't we?' asked Dame Primus. She sounded genuinely puzzled.
