Garth Nix Quotes
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I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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I'd love to make a thriller.
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In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.
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I don't want to be held down by genres so much.
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I don't think things have changed for me. Yes, I got a big contract, but my focus is still the same.
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I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
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Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
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I love Austin for vintage shopping, and there are some really good places in L.A., too.
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We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
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Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
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The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of it.
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It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.
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I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions.
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Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds.
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By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it.
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What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature.
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Teachers are very undervalued for what they do.
