Diane Setterfield Quotes

I see people as haunted by the selves they don't know... I don't have children, but I have nieces and nephews, and one thing I notice is how fascinated they are by stories of their lives before they can remember.

Diane Setterfield

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: August 22, 1964

Topics

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I move between the two: I write an adult novel, and then I write a children's book. I quite enjoy that. It's a nice change of pace each time.

John Boyne

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As soon as I get bored, I start missing the kids, so I don't let myself get bored. I just go surfing.

Joel Parkinson

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On one level, of course, the notion of judging films or books or music against each other is completely ridiculous. Who's to say '12 Years A Slave' is a better film than 'The Wolf of Wall Street'? Or that one album in a certain genre is better than another in a completely different genre?

John Niven

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I'm totally comfortable not being as funny as Larry David.

Jeff Garlin

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Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

Robert Browning

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The most healthy way to be creative is to work with what you have and not sit around wishing you had something different.

Roisin Murphy

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I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

Russell Brand

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People will dig their heels in and fight for the things they love and against the things they hate.

Matt Berninger

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I think people are always nostalgic for a time about 20 years before they were born.

Lisa Loeb

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There's no really signature Leo DiCaprio role, like Jack Nicholson is Jack Nicholson no matter what movie he's in.

Dennis Christopher

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'The Stooges' used to be ubiquitous, back in the '60s and '70s. They were on TV all the time, but they're not on so much anymore. Kids aren't getting the chance to watch them, not to mention the fact that kids don't really necessarily relate to black-and-white stuff.

Chris Diamantopoulos

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Symbols are important. It depends on how they're used.

Chirlane McCray

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