Garth Nix Quotes
'You mean he's dead too?' asked Suzy. 'Yes,' said Dusk. 'This morning, in his cell. The guards outside were also slain, and only Sir Thursday's boots remained.' 'Sounds more like he escaped,' Suzy said. 'His feet were still in the boots,' said Dusk.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.
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We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
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It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
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You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.
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I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity.
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I have grown up loving Shakespeare.
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I don't think Donald Trump represents the Republican Party... I think more and more people are going to realize that they really don't trust him.
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Leaving 'NCIS' was not planned, so there is no plan. If I were panicking now, it would defeat the purpose.
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I don't know what drives me, but I wake up in the morning, and I want to participate in the creative cultural conversation.
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'You mean he's dead too?' asked Suzy. 'Yes,' said Dusk. 'This morning, in his cell. The guards outside were also slain, and only Sir Thursday's boots remained.' 'Sounds more like he escaped,' Suzy said. 'His feet were still in the boots,' said Dusk.
