Susanna Clarke Quotes

I had to restrain myself from buying a book on 19th-century fruit knives.

Susanna Clarke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.

Joanne Harris

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You can make serious pop, you know? There was a time when the best movies were the most popular, and I keep thinking that can happen again.

John Cameron Mitchell

TimeBestThinkingYouKnowMovies

Some things, I think, like fairy books and secret doors, are only meant to be found by children.

Jennifer McMahon

ChildrenThinkDoorsMeant To Be

I've loved hip-hop all of my life, but there came a time in my life when my entire life had a shift: where, before, I was just kind of going to church every now and then; then, there was an actual change, where I actually understood who Jesus was, actually understood the message of the Gospel, and my entire life changed.

Trip Lee

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I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials.

Trevor Dunn

CarSearchRememberYouNowOut

One thing I try to avoid in my films are effects that have a CG 'look' to them. The challenge is never let the audience get distracted by thinking that they're watching something made in a computer.

Jonathan Mostow

ChallengeThinkingLookTryNever

I do not want my name to be presented to the public as an Indian, but as a pitcher.

Chief Bender

NameWantPitcherIndianPublic

We need to empower all women, both financially and socially, to give them the tools to support themselves and their families. We need to start seeing them as contributors to society, as assets, not as objects of pity or, even worse, objects of shame.

Cherie Blair

WomenSupportSocietyStartTools

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

Bob Geldof

SimplePoliticsPeopleMeDieYou

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

Phillips Brooks

NatureHumbleYourselfGreatnessYou

The survival of extraordinary creatures such as the giant Tasmanian freshwater crayfish - the largest in the world - is in doubt because of logging.

Richard Flanagan

WorldSurvivalDoubtExtraordinary

I have this complex. I don't like too much exposure. I don't know why it is. Maybe it's bred in me, because my dad always told me to be humble and don't think you're too good.

Mark Viduka

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