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Susanna Clarke Quotes

I could always imagine more interesting places to be than where I was. And more interesting people than me being there. Eventually, this led to making up stories and writing things down.

Susanna Clarke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: english
Birth: November 1, 1959

Topics

People Me Writing Interesting Down

I had some experience writing collaboratively when I wrote for the theatre.

Jesse Kellerman

Experience Writing Theatre Some Had

Many people, many girls have tried to teach me the rules to football. And you would think that it would get in my head that way, but I just don't understand it.

John Hodgman

Football People Me Think You Rules

They don't bother too much with the balance and things on blues records.

Maurice Gibb

Balance Blues Too Much Things Bother

Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.

Mike Lowry

Listening Well Movie Lot Lately

The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is.

Dick Cheney

Good Business Choose Go Places Oil

I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.

Dr. Dre

Age Important Young Almost Songs

Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all.

Donald Judd

Simple Saying Someone Seeing Count

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Aristotle

Down Always Laws Been Even Ought

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

Aurora

Change Woman I Am Me World Adapt

In all these years, I've always tried to emphasize and to promote the need to combat the Mafia. Because it is a cancer which is oppressive and which stifles everybody's freedom and reduces the possibility for the areas in which it's present to prosper and to develop.

Sergio Mattarella

Freedom Present Mafia Need Always

When my dad hit 40, he quit everything. He sold the house and bought the boat and went off sailing the world. I was on that boat from age 12 to 18. We didn't actually go around the world. We went pretty much from France through the whole Mediterranean basin. We went to Ireland first. We also went to coast of Africa, South America and the Caribbean.

Sebastian Roche

Age World Boat America House Quit

That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had gone into Baghdad and pushed Saddam Hussein off, we would have inherited an even bigger mess than the mess we inherited with the refugee problem.

Les Aspin

Resolution Problem Go Mess Bigger