Jon McGregor Quotes

It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine much more of it.

Jon McGregor

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MyselfWritingBookEasyMoreDrift

If 'Queen Of Denmark' was about my childhood, then 'Pale Green Ghosts' is definitely about my adolescence, and that period was completely dominated by electronic music.

John Grant

MusicChildhoodQueenGreenGhosts

As a society, we must not allow human rights abuses to go unnoticed and undocumented; it is a vital mission to fight ignorance of these tragic events.

Andy Dunn

IgnoranceFightSocietyMissionGo

Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?

Robert Stone

MorningTomorrowNewRunUpSalute

Use the word 'zeitgeist' as often as possible. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don't really know their definitions: 'zeitgeist,' 'bildungsroman,' 'doppelganger' - better yet, anything Latin. But avoid 'paradigm.' It's so 1994. If you say the word 'paradigm,' everybody knows you're a poser.

Stephen Colbert

WordsPeopleBetterYouFindKnow

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

Stephen King

FeetStandYouPlaceNeverWhere

The trick to scrambled eggs is to remove half the milk from the container and shake what's left as hard as you can, like a cocktail shaker, before you whisk it into the eggs.

Sloane Crosley

YouMilkHardCocktailEggsLeft

I like the dueling club scene, where Daniel and I fight with our wands. I thought it was a brilliant scene to shoot. I think the end product looked really good.

Tom Felton

GoodFightThinkThoughtEndClub

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

FightCareYouWillWayOthers

It's not exactly a big surprise that women mature earlier than men do. As a result, they tend to display better judgment, particularly when it comes to money.

Jean Chatzky

WomenMoneyMenSurpriseBetterBig

I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.

Donella Meadows

StrengthCourageWarAmazingSociety

Every time I do photo shoots, my bottom lip and, like, my top lip are quivering because I just don't know how to look. Then the flash kind of makes me go boss-eyed sometimes.

Anne-Marie

TimeMeLookKnowSometimesKind

I'd prefer not to tell confidential information about future products.

Phil Schiller

FutureInformationTellProducts

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