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Nina Bawden Quotes

I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.

Nina Bawden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Job War Go Said Want University

I have a pretty terrible sweet tooth.

Joe Kennedy III

Sweet Sweet Tooth Pretty Terrible

There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

John Bunyan

Despair Castle Owner Giant Doubting

I'm a compassionate conservative.

John Engler

Conservative Compassionate

I didn't need to get knocked down to know the fortitude that I have in me.

Andre Ward

Me Down Know Need Fortitude Knocked

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Andre Maurois

Age Stand Artist Go Out Against

There are so many tricks and so much eye candy in cinema. What I love about the classicism of genre is that there's a discipline. I think it's a healthy thing to resist all that candy.

John Hillcoat

Love Discipline Eye Think Cinema

I'm not very ambitious at all.

Amy Winehouse

Ambitious Very

I'm not the kind of person that sits around kind of envisioning things.

Ana Navarro

Person Kind Things Around

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

Tom Waits

School Listening Learn You Wonder

If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.

Robert Downey, Jr.

Light Doing You Drama Serious Film

Unless you're a star in this town, you're really nothing.

Robin Wright

You Nothing Star Town Really Unless

The Tea Party and the like are about what we can't do, instead of the American ideal of what we can.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

Tea American Party Ideal Like About