Robin Hobb Quotes

As the character talks and moves, the world around him is slowly revealed, just like dollying a camera back for a wider look at things. So all my stories start with a character, and that character introduces setting, culture, conflict, government, economy... all of it, through his or her eyes.

Robin Hobb

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 5, 1952

Topics

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I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and I'm a great believer that you can't have too conservative a President nor too liberal a Supreme Court. So I'm a walking contradiction. I believe that you should try to really protect people's rights in every way, and also, people should be allowed to do what they do.

Jerry Della Femina

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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

Andre Maurois

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I haven't taken a break after marriage. Just two days after my marriage, I was in Chandigarh promoting my Punjabi film.

Anita Hassanandani Reddy

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People thought I was funny, so I kind of took entertaining for granted... it was inevitable that I'd start giving little performances.

Johnny Carson

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I know I'm an opera singer, but we're actors, too.

Sondra Radvanovsky

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In 2018, my biggest worry is actually about North Korea. I worry a great deal that they may do a destructive attack, perhaps against our financial sector, in an attempt to deter a potential U.S. strike against either their nuclear facilities or even the regime itself.

Dmitri Alperovitch

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I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.

Christian Slater

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I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.

Clayton M. Christensen

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I always had the fantasy of Hollywood and Los Angeles and the beach, not realizing that Hollywood was so very far from the beach.

Bonnie McKee

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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Aristotle

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We're losing jobs in our manufacturing base, and those families that are going to be out of work over the holidays, that is a very sad thing. That is more governmental dependency. That is a reduced tax revenue for the state and for the federal government.

Anthony Scaramucci

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I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.

Philippe Falardeau

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