Diana Wynne Jones Quotes

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

Diana Wynne Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 16, 1934 - March 26, 2011

Topics

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The monetary market is going to value people's time less and less as time goes on, so you need another way to structure their day that rewards them.

Andrew Yang

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'Phantom Menace' was a huge project. It was the biggest visual effects production ever done at that point, and it was a little scary how big it was and how many unknown technologies had to be developed to do that work.

John Knoll

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Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people.

John Henrik Clarke

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Lyndon Johnson is not a comfortable model for President Obama to imitate. He is an all-but-forgotten president - pilloried for the failed war in Vietnam and criticized for grandiose reforms conservatives denounce as the epitome of federal social engineering that costs too much and does too little.

Robert Dallek

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I only really and truly fully relax on my own. Give me a sun lounger, a pool and a sea view, and I'm happy.

Miranda Hart

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For some reason, I like seeing people feel emotional.

Millie Bobby Brown

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I think the problem is that fashion has become too fashionable.

Louise Wilson

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'Clueless' is an adaptation of 'Emma' by Jane Austen. It works either way: if you know the book and if you don't.

Jason Moore

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Jesus Christ is infinitely more than a great teacher and philosopher.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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To be able to make furniture has always been a fantasy of mine.

Jonathan Anderson

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In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.

Devdutt Pattanaik

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I think that my size is an advantage, but also my speed.

Devon Cajuste

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