Michel Faber Quotes

By recycling pre-existing material, Shakespeare seemed to endorse a view common in his time, which has become even more entrenched in the 400 years since: that all the truly essential stories are already in the bag.

Michel Faber

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

Jim Jarmusch

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My dad didn't have a formal education, but he had a wonderful vocabulary. So in 'Harvest,' I wanted my main character to be an innately intelligent man who would have the vocabulary to say whatever he wanted in the same way as lots of working-class people can.

Jim Crace

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The beautiful thing about writing with the person that you love is that when they come up with an idea that is great, it's this dual happiness because that's the partner and that's such a good idea, and I'm proud of you, and then also I'm really excited for the project.

Melissa Rauch

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Self esteem and a healthy body image for people with disabilities are so often hard-fought.

Stella Young

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You can't separate the clothes from the stores, from the environment.

Mickey Drexler

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We are inhabited by as many as ten thousand bacterial species; these cells outnumber those which we consider our own by ten to one, and weigh, all told, about three pounds - the same as our brain.

Michael Specter

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I'd rather have a hot dog than caviar.

Juan Pablo Montoya

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I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.

Don McLean

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Celebrity is a gift. I'm very lucky.

DJ Qualls

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Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.

Chuck Palahniuk

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The future is all about leading a stress-free life and having all the solutions for all problems at hand.

Astro Teller

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I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine.

Alison Lohman

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