Michelle Paver Quotes

I live on my own, happily, and I've never wanted children, but it did occur to me one day that there's part of me in 'Torak' - he's a loner, I'm a loner - as there's part of me in 'Renn,' who's quite waspish. I think, in some senses, 'Torak' is the son I never had.

Michelle Paver

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 7, 1960

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Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.

John Malkovich

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I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.

Robert Redford

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Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Ani DiFranco

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The whole world is in my hand, and I will conquer and subjugate the world.

Sun Myung Moon

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I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from.

Mary Steenburgen

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I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

Jonathan Demme

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Pregnancy is not a disease. The child in the womb is neither a tumor nor a parasite to be destroyed.

Chris Smith

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I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense - how do you approach the problem of this character? Sometimes I crack that problem, sometimes I don't.

Brad Pitt

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I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.

Penelope Spheeris

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I like to experiment with my voice, besides music.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

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The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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When I was 13, I forged my date of birth so that I could get a Saturday job at Woolworth's, earning £1 3s 6d for the day. But my real ambition was to do something in the music world - or, at least, close to it.

Richard Desmond

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