Michel Faber Quotes

In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.

Michel Faber

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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In a song, you have to have a lyric that gives us new ideas on how to live, a lyric that makes us feel, and a melody that gives you some kind of body response and emotional response.

Jennifer Warnes

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When you walk through the hospital, you waiver between feeling bad for everyone else and feeling bad for yourself. It's a war of the worlds - the healthy and the sick.

Jenna Morasca

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People in New York are surprised when I open my mouth.

Stephen Graham

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I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it.

Stirling Moss

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Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day.

Smokey Robinson

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Could I get a friggin' Hot Pocket around here?

Lorne Michaels

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Well, they put me in a booth and then did some nice things to the speaker to make it come out sounding ok.

Don Knotts

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I was always the guy who made jokes and ribbed people at parties. After I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts I got sidetracked into clubs and started doing comedy.

Don Rickles

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For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract.

Diane Lane

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Kathy Bates is sexy. It's partly because of her talent, but she's got a great face, and a great laugh.

Denis Leary

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Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women.

Deborah Tannen

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I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years.

Chester Brown

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