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Christopher Moore Quotes

When I teach seminars, I tell people, 'Your stuff has to look like something that's out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.'

Christopher Moore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1957

Topics

People Chance You Look Nobody Will

It's fun to be a part of pop history. Anytime you can be referenced in that respect it can be cool.

History Respect Fun Cool You Pop

I'm not tied to any particular political line.

Political Line Tied Any Particular

My grandfather on my dad's side was the first in our family to settle in the U.K. He came from Pakistan on his own in the '60s and worked in a cotton mill in Bolton, earning enough to bring over the rest of his family. My dad, Shah, was only about eight when he came to this country. Like most immigrants, he has a fierce work ethic.

Work Family Rest Work Ethic Fierce

I don't believe I'll be in the new 'Arrested Development' unless they ask me, in which case, okay! That's how easy I am to get.

I Am Me Believe Easy New Okay

The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city.

Live City Desert You Lose Out

My father came from a Quaker family. His father was a professional artist who did portraits - very traditional, a lot of religious subjects.

Family Father Artist Professional

When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interest your readers at all. Every writer in the world has to use the characters that have something interesting about them, and this is even more true in children's books.

Good Children People Writing World

Directors should be paid for promising impossible things.

Impossible Things Paid Should

If I wanted to have total control and be a dictator, I would do ice sculpture in my basement. If I want to make a movie, I'm going to work with 500 people, and I will have to work with their strength and their weakness.

Denis Villeneuve

Work Strength People Control Ice

It is such a surreal feeling to have my first single go No. 1!

Feeling Go First Single Surreal

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

Bryant H. McGill

Think Person Beyond Common Fears

There have always been difficult situations for activists in Pakistan. In the 1960s, people fought for linguistic and ethnic rights in relation to the Bangladesh movement and the struggle of the people in the western Balochistan province.

Struggle People Difficult Movement

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