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Arthur Phillips Quotes

I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put it out of my mind and get on with what I'm doing.

Arthur Phillips

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 23, 1969

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Mind Impossible Thought Worry Doing

I don't write songs.

John Corbett

Write Songs

There is nothing odder than to apply an analytical device to a synthetic phenomenon: for instance, to write in English about a Russian poet.

Joseph Brodsky

Nothing Write Analytical Poet Apply

She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what life was like for women in Australia in the 1960's.

Colleen McCullough

Life Women Great Fun Book Look

Control is not real, and I'm really understanding that every day. It's about the acceptance of relinquishing control that makes it powerful for you.

SZA

Day Acceptance Control You Powerful

I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.

Phil Donahue

War World Remember Fence Understand

I don't like conflict.

Nigella Lawson

Conflict Like

I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang.

Richard Chamberlain

Hurt Better Feel Someone Feelings

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

Marilyn Manson

I Am Think Way Turn Off Who

You create a blueprint of your best performance, and you're happiest the night you surpass that blueprint. That won't happen that often, but it will happen. It's like sculpting: you keep refining. When you have a piece that is yours, that is just you, that becomes obsessive; you think about it all the time.

Kenneth Cranham

Time Best Night Performance Think

I think it's always good to read local authors or relevant books. In Egypt, I studied hieroglyphics and read everything about the mummies.

Jane Birkin

Good Think Egypt Always Everything

I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.

Janelle Monae

Me Things Psycho Favorite Like

Did I ever think about TV stardom? I don't watch a lot of TV. I wasn't even aware of the phenomenon of what was going on in food television, what you started with the Food Network.

Guy Fieri

Food Think You Television Going Did