Sophie Kinsella Quotes

If you want something you can't afford, think what else that money could buy: a week's groceries, a month's rent, or a weekend away. That will put things into perspective.

Sophie Kinsella

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 12, 1969

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MoneyPerspectiveThinkWeekendYou

As the body fades - which it will inevitably do as we stay here on the planet - it really behooves us to wake up to who we really are. You can either go along willingly or be dragged, because it will happen.

Robert Gant

Wake UpYouBodyGoWillPlanet

Living in France while the Falklands War was going on, I felt a profound sense of shame and betrayal, just as I did by the war in Iraq. People have asked why I don't talk about that directly in my plays. Well, politics needs to be articulated in many different ways.

Simon McBurney

PoliticsWarPeopleBetrayalLiving

People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn't been my experience.

Tucker Carlson

ExperiencePeopleYouSayBecome

I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.

Michel Gondry

TimeImaginationThinkSometimesSee

What Stieg Larsson was up to - it was the Swedish guilt over World War II. All of our neighbors had the most terrible experiences with the bad forces, but Sweden didn't. I think we use the thrillers in a different way. We never write a thriller like 'Who is the murderer?' The big question in most of our thrillers is... 'Why?'

Michael Nyqvist

WarWorldThinkGuiltBadWhy

Broadcasting is plastic; while it can ape the press, it can also emulate the arts.

Louis MacNeice

PlasticArtsBroadcastingPressApe

It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're watching one, the terror bombards you.

Josh Hartnett

YouBackHorrorWatchingRealSee

I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve.

Dick Fosbury

MomentTeamTrainAthleteNever

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.

Donald Tusk

TruthLookingRoadReconciliation

Sting I've seen a few times, and he really inspired me in the sense that he breaks the songs down a lot and will take a different approach. He'll take an acoustic approach to them; he'll rearrange them for the live stage.

Shania Twain

LiveMeDownWillStageInspired

Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.

Thomas Lynch

LoveGriefDeathMeSexCreate

I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.

Richie Sambora

SongLookSayTryWithinOff

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