Nina Bawden Quotes

I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.

Nina Bawden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: January 19, 1925 - August 22, 2012

Topics

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Perspective is not a science but a hope.

John Berger

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Walt's idea was that - as soon as the people who were dining got through their main course. They were supposed to all be seated, served at the same time, when they got into the dessert.

John Hench

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A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it.

Matthew Barney

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There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

Stephen Hawking

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Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of submission. Islam means submit.

Steve Bannon

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The reality is for 50 years in this country, federal law has required people that are illegal - or that are immigrants - or that are legal immigrants to this country to carry documentation to that effect. And that has been the law for 50 years.

Trent Franks

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Had my dad not been short and fat and balding, there's no doubt his career would have been very different. But he could do lots of stuff and made a very good career out of it. He had an incredible work ethic because he lost his father when he was very young, and the family had to pull together.

Rory Kinnear

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The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

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I write what I'm interested in.

Lisa See

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You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?

Jason Marsden

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You gotta understand, 'Swingers' was a resume film for me. I never thought anybody would see the movie who I wasn't in the room with showing it to them.

Doug Liman

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Success can breed all kinds of other behavior and cause companies to behave a certain way that isn't necessarily the ingredients for achieving more success. For instance, with success comes arrogance, and that's typically the death of success.

Bob Iger

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