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Sophie Hannah Quotes

Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, most people look incredibly bright, as if they are probably off to win a Nobel prize.

Sophie Hannah

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: british
Birth: 1971

Topics

Live Walk I Am People Win World

You never write a catchphrase; you never write something and say, 'This is going to be a catchphrase.' You just write the show, and then in the course of the show, somebody says something, and for some reason it gets a laugh.

Jeremy Lloyd

Laugh You Say Never Write Reason

Professional humorists and cartoonists have to go through a stage in which they have to kill their own internal editor just so they can get stuff out. So whether they believe it or not, they need me on the other end to do that editing for them.

Robert Mankoff

Me Believe End Professional Go Need

Doors open to you every time you get a different role. So, yeah, the research is my passion; that's why I keep doing it.

Michael Hogan

Passion Time Research Doors Doing

I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

John Piper

Love Know Always Who Writer Both

Film schools didn't exist when I was growing up. I learned by working with clever people. Good writers and cinematographers.

Stephen Frears

Good People Growing Up Growing Up

I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.

Shirin Ebadi

Violence Nothing Useful Maintain

We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore.

Louise Mensch

Fear Service Police Social Media

Pageants were a platform for me, and they helped me get to where I am today. You suddenly stop being just another girl, and people want to listen to what you have to say.

Joyce Giraud

Girl Today I Am People Me You

It's been in the back of my head for five or six years, but more on the local level to get involved and try to create a better environment for my children and grandchildren.

Jon Runyan

Children Better Environment Create

Being closeted often put me in situations where I couldn't concentrate or even think straight.

Chelsea Manning

Me Think Where Being Even Straight

I have to be honest, I don't pay as much attention to women's fashion, but being a sneaker head, I do like it when a girl can rock a nice pair of sneakers. Not every girl can do it. Every girl looks good in heels - that's a given - but not every girl can look good in fresh kicks.

Bryan Greenberg

Good Women Girl Fashion Look Nice

Using medicine in the service of cosmesis is generally bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for democracy. The only exceptions are when we know the intervention will actually reduce suffering, as with a primary cleft lip repair.

Alice Dreger

Service Suffering Democracy Medicine