Meg Rosoff Quotes

One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like the person. It doesn't always work in reverse - there are huge numbers of lovely people out there writing not very good books.

Meg Rosoff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 16, 1956

Topics

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Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That's when you know the most, you've seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

Jerry Seinfeld

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As I looked across the company, there are three things that keep coming up that we need to work on: culture, our operating rigor, and capital allocation.

John L. Flannery

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On a movie, you often work fourteen-, sixteen-hour days, six days a week, for six months. It is so easy to let up because of fatigue.

Michael Cimino

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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Johnny Carson

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The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough.

John Sayles

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My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

Simon Newcomb

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You know, I don't only play for the record books.

Roger Federer

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The last thing they want is a revitalized economy now. I'm not saying the Democrats don't want a strong economy. Don't misunderstand. They just don't want it now.

Rush Limbaugh

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I would like to be taller, thinner and more rakish looking.

Michael Sheen

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Most of the people that I spend my time around are people who listen to a whole lot of different kinds of music.

Jason Isbell

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I wouldn't say even that I'm a broadly political person. But on occasion, I have felt that I have no choice but to paint something with a strong moral stance.

Chris Ofili

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My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.

Anton du Beke

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