Michel Faber Quotes

The privileged Victorians who did most to improve the lives of the poor were not ashamed of their pious intent: they were superiors seeking to help inferiors.

Michel Faber

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I'd done acting at a local drama school on Saturdays. I just enjoyed it. It never entered my mind I could possibly do it for a career.

Jodie Comer

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I never really think too much about my voice.

Joel Edgerton

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I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write.

Andrea Hirata

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For me, it's very important that shows about gay people are messy and complicated and are truthful about what we do.

Andrew Haigh

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We don't know how many planets we're going to have to examine before we find life, and not finding it on 10 or 100 doesn't mean it's not there. This may be very tricky.

John M. Grunsfeld

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Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.

Sturgill Simpson

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I've learned that guns are exceptionally challenging to use effectively, with a power that must be respected. But mostly what I've learned is that they're a lot of fun, and dangerously appealing to an active imagination.

Trieste Kelly Dunn

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I'm a magician, like David Blaine. I could never fall.

Travis Scott

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I was convinced that the trading frequency measured a fundamental heartbeat of financial markets. Clearly it reflected the flow of information. It turns out also to be closely related to measures of liquidity.

Robert F. Engle

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There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

Loni Anderson

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I never got into things to be famous. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's annoying.

Judah Friedlander

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I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.

Chris Chocola

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