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.
Natasha Leggero -
Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
Wayne Rogers -
All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
V. S. Naipaul -
I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
Obie Trice -
I'd love to make a thriller.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.
Gail Sheehy
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I don't want to be held down by genres so much.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club -
I don't think things have changed for me. Yes, I got a big contract, but my focus is still the same.
Calvin Johnson -
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.
Jack Canfield -
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.
Ted Koppel -
There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
Jack Nicholson -
I love Austin for vintage shopping, and there are some really good places in L.A., too.
Camila Alves
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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.
Camilo Jose Cela -
Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
M. John Harrison -
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.
Patrick deWitt -
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.
Madeleine L'Engle -
Da stehe ich nun, ich armer Thor!Und bin so klug als wie zuvor.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.
Patti Smith -
Moreover, there is this harm too, and one of vast extent, and touching men generally, that by insincerity and lying faith and truth are lost, which are the firmest bonds of human society, and, when they are lost, supreme confusion follows in life, so that men seem in nothing to differ from devils.
John Henry Newman -
Without knowing it or meaning to, we are training ourselves to be constantly on the alert for interruptions; to seek out messages incessantly, to process data rather than discover, invent, think, or feel, and in general to lose the propensity or even the capacity to ponder, pause, imagine, or give full focus to anyone or anything for more than a few restive moments.
Edward Hallowell -
For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.
Terry Eagleton -
Our legacy is really the lives we touch, the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan - if even for a moment - and getting them to think, cry, laugh, argue. More than anything, we are remembered for our smiles; the ones we share with our closest and dearest, and the ones we bestow on a total stranger, who needed it RIGHT THEN, and God put you there to deliver.
Carrie Hamilton -
Teachers are very undervalued for what they do.
Garth Nix