Garth Nix Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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 a big fan of the 'Harry Potter' movies and 'The Lord of the Rings' films.
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Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.
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Ebola isn't a respiratory virus. It doesn't spread through the airborne route. So it's not likely to spread like wildfire around the world and kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. That's what I think of as the next big one.
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I can detach myself from the world. If there is a better world to detach oneself from than the one functioning at the moment I have yet to hear of it.
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Teachers are very undervalued for what they do.
