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Jennifer Haigh Quotes

I believed, after writing 'Mrs. Kimble,' that I knew how to write a novel. I quickly discovered that I only knew how to write that novel. 'Baker Towers' was a different beast entirely; and I felt as though I had to learn to write all over again.

Jennifer Haigh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1968

Topics

Writing Learn Beast Write Over Only

I don't want a performance to give me everything. You can look at Charlotte Rampling in '45 Years,' and you don't really know what she's thinking, but you know something interesting is happening.

Andrew Haigh

Me Performance Thinking Interesting

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Sigmund Freud

Water Mind Brainy Iceberg Above

Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

Mitch Hedberg

Children Book Kid Read Every

You know, when people talk about filmmaking and the techniques of filmmaking, we use them all the time in network television news in order to make our stories simpler, tighter and more understandable to the general public.

Lowell Bergman

Time People You Television Know

I do remember that I was sitting in the make-up chair before the shoots for a commercial or film or other, and I thought: Sometime soon they are going to make a close-up of me and millions of people can see how many pimples I've got on my cheeks.

Jonathan Brandis

People Me Thought Remember Chair

I'm out of the terse Hemingway school.

Donald McCaig

School Out Hemingway

The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.

Chevy Chase

People House White Want Watching

I love 'Harry Potter' and JK Rowling - don't laugh at me!

ASAP Rocky

Love Me Laugh Harry Potter I Love

The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.

Wole Soyinka

Will Hand Eat Bottom Pot Snail

What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

Men I Am Support Me Wrong Want

If you put on weight it's not by chance. You put on weight because you eat compulsively.

Pierre Dukan

Chance You Eat Because Weight Put

I think 'pop' can be a bit of a dirty word. People are very cool in Australia. They don't like to admit that they like pop. There are people who listen to Triple J and cool stuff like that, but commercial radio is massive, and if you look at the sales of the pop songs every week, people love pop music.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

Love Music People Cool Think Look