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Nina Bawden Quotes

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

Nina Bawden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Education People Me Think Learn Who

I'm still trying to find the actor I want to be, but I know what kind of the talent I want to be around.

John David Washington

Talent Trying Find Know Want Kind

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

Rupert Sanders

Darkness Fairy Up Essence Tales Had

If you tweet for me, I'll tweet for you.

Michael Wolf

Me You Tweet

It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.

Moby

Decisions Easy Consequences Sometimes

The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.

Jonathan Davis

Death Me Want Real Out Something

Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.

Johnny Depp

Myself Guitar Room Puberty Vague

The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

You Wrong Say Nothing Tell British

I ran into Neal Patrick Harris recently. We were in something called The Purple People Eater. He was maybe 10, but he still remembered it as the worst experience of his life!

Peggy Lipton

Life Experience People Purple Worst

Cities are about juxtaposition.

Richard Rogers

Juxtaposition About Cities

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

Richard Russo

Mind Story Think Short Something

In 1949, China declared independence - an event known in Western discourse as 'the loss of China' in the U.S. - with bitter recriminations and conflict over who was responsible for that loss.

Noam Chomsky

Conflict Independence Loss Over Who

I know I'm appreciated by how fans treat me, and the best way to treat them is play every day, hard. I sign autographs, but if I'm with someone I don't know who doesn't start the conversation, there won't be a conversation. That's just me, living my life. But I'll loosen up after baseball.

Ryne Sandberg

Life Best Day Baseball Start Treat