Michel Faber Quotes

In all of my work, I think I'm exploring the idea that we are aliens to each other, how there is a huge distance that separates us all.

Michel Faber

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: April 13, 1960

Topics

WorkThinkDistanceExploringUs

In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.

Joaquin Phoenix

CharacterHeroismHimAudienceUp

I think everybody in news understands that the audience that watches for more than an hour is not your target audience - because those people are on life support.

John Hockenberry

LifeSupportPeopleThinkWatches

I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about his life, even though I've just written a biography!

Stephen Greenblatt

LifeLoveSoupThinkingMy LifeYou

I'm literally driving in the middle of the night, and my phone rings, and my manager says, 'How would you like to be the host of the Daily Show?' I get out the car, and I didn't have legs. You know in those movies where there's an explosion? But instead of the sound of the explosion, you hear the silence. That's literally what happened.

Trevor Noah

CarDailySilenceNightDrivingYou

Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.

Tom Daschle

MistakeTaxCheatUsLawsIRS

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

FriendshipBeautifulTrue Friendship

I take it very seriously, the photographic craft.

Juergen Teller

SeriouslyCraftTakePhotographic

I get this a lot: 'Oh, can you take a picture with my baby? Can you hold the baby?' I don't want to hold your baby! I'll hold my baby. I don't like holding someone else's baby. I'm serious! You never know what could happen. It's such an awkward position you're put in, and it's like, 'No, sorry.'

Juan Pablo Montoya

BabySorryPictureSomeoneYouKnow

I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

Janine di Giovanni

ReporterReadDidNewspapersUntil

I love berries. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, black berries, anything with an 'errie' in it!

Jordin Sparks

LoveBlackStrawberriesAnything

You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.

Don Bluth

BusinessMoneyYouDownNeverKeep

Little Richard, he'd say, 'Oh Dick Dale! You have luscious lips!'

Dick Dale

LipsYouSayLittleHeOh

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