Douglas Adams Quotes

I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.

Douglas Adams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 11, 1952 - May 11, 2001

Topics

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Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.

John Shelby Spong

ChurchChristianWhoOhPrimary

I felt that for 20 years, I was wooing the people of my country and asking them to like me as an actor, and when they liked me as an actor, I told them, 'Now, you like my politics.'

Amitabh Bachchan

PoliticsPeopleMeYouCountryNow

I want to learn how to play an instrument. I want to break a world record. I'm just a very determined, motivated type of person.

Alyson Stoner

WorldLearnPersonPlayWantBreak

Very bad things follow when we kid ourselves that we're naturally rational, rather than the more humbling truth: naturally emotional.

Robert Webb

TruthBadMoreFollowKidEmotional

Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music.

Ryan Adams

LearningMusicBeautifulJoyMe

It's not publicly known, but antivirus companies co-operate all the time. On the surface, antivirus vendors are direct competitors. And in fact, the competition is fierce on the sales and marketing side. But on the technical side, we're actually very friendly to each other. It seems that everyone knows everyone else.

Mikko Hypponen

TimeCompetitionFierceMarketing

I was never really a writer, I was always more of a performer.

Mick Ronson

MoreNeverAlwaysWriterReally

Though I did M.Sc. from Dharamshala, I was always attracted towards music.

Mohit Chauhan

MusicAlwaysThoughDidAttracted

I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.

Doris Roberts

LearningTimeI AmGoWantWay

I never realised 'The Return' would take so long to make - it was a very tough 'political experience,' and the post production in L.A. seemed to go on forever.

Asif Kapadia

ExperienceToughPoliticalLongGo

I love the intimacy and the passion and the danger that go into independent filmmaking. Because it comes out of a creative necessity. It comes from people who really want to make a movie and want to make a difference and want to grab an audience by the gullet and show them something different.

Pierce Brosnan

LovePassionCreativePeopleWant

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Pierre Charron

NatureGodManWiseWorldStudy

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