Sophie Hannah Quotes

Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate: if you go looking for names, you're bound to find them, of course, but I've always had a superstitious hunch that the names you find by accident are always going to be better and more satisfying somehow.

Sophie Hannah

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: 1971

Topics

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Jimi Hendrix is a classic example of a player in which everything he did, it was all in his hands.

Joe Bonamassa

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As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.

Andy Goldsworthy

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I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I don't want people to just remember me for one thing.

Sterling K. Brown

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Fabio Maldonado jumped up to heavyweight for our fight, and while he wasn't ranked, he is a super-tough dude and had never been knocked out before.

Stipe Miocic

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While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

Sissela Bok

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Tribalism reflects strong ethnic or cultural identities that separate members of one group from another, making them loyal to people like them and suspicious of outsiders, which undermines efforts to forge common cause across groups.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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People should try to know God and imitate him in their works. Repetitions and ceremonials are of no use.

Dayananda Saraswati

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I've always loved the wild rumpus in 'Where the Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak, because the words disappear, the pictures take up the whole page, and we move forward in the story by turning the pages.

Brian Selznick

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My dad's a photographer. So I suppose he named me Ansel just in case I would take over the family business. I guess I failed him.

Ansel Elgort

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The brutality of apartheid drains you of that emotion of fear if you have gone through everything you can be put through in the process of harassment.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

William Shakespeare

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I'm the Magoo of actresses, very accident-prone.

Peta Wilson

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