Michelle Paver Quotes

There's this whole thing of being two people. You are the person you want to be - the writer - and then there's this weird other life of going on tour and talking about the writing. And that really is weird.

Michelle Paver

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.'

John Green

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What Americans desperately need is a way to transition from the current system - which is fragmented and focuses on high-cost, high-tech interventions after illness strikes - to a modern system that delivers coordinated, high-touch, lower-cost, patient-centered care with an emphasis on primary care and prevention.

Matthew Heineman

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I don't know when acting came to be more about awards than about the work. Judging who's better than the other person shouldn't be part of why we're doing this job. It should be about entertaining people.

Anna Paquin

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I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.

Anita Diament

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I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

Ang Lee

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My parents have always told me to work hard. My father was a friend, a very good friend, but when he needed to be a father, he was.

Jeev Milkha Singh

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I'm so proud to play for a big club like Arsenal.

Mesut Ozil

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You have to have a life. And life has to go on when your voice shuts down on you and you have to take a break from what you're doing for a career.

Steve Kazee

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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Stanley Kubrick

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If you're trying to solve a problem that is fundamentally important to human society, that's really important to our mission at Indie Bio.

Arvind Gupta

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The thing about getting older is the injuries. You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.

Allen Johnson

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Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Woody Allen

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