Nicola Griffith Quotes

I'm not sure many writers are trying to reconcile all the things that are separated in our culture - body and mind, urban and pastoral, lyricism and hardboiled, men and women, joy and grief. I tried to do quite a lot, but I wanted to create a serious work of literature.

Nicola Griffith

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The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was.

John Irving

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Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

Robert Graves

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There are times when I think, 'Do I have the energy to be upset?' and the answer is 'no.'

Anna Faris

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Remember, I'm someone who got fired from Disney and eight days later started the first studio in 65 years with two of the most brilliant, successful people in the history of the entertainment business, doing something everyone said was somewhere between improbable and impossible. I'm afraid that's exactly what I love doing.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

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If you had to point to anything, it's when you've had as much success as we've had and are so close to winning a Super Bowl, at some stage you have an opportunity to think the next move, even if it's not consistent with all your previous moves, will be the one that gives you the chance to win the Lombardi Trophy.

Jeffrey Lurie

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If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

Townsend Harris

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I hate Nassau and the Bahamas. It's one of those places I'd always wanted to visit since reading Ian Fleming but it was full of casinos with Americans in shorts.

Tony Parsons

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Many of the things we do at Basecamp would be considered unusual at most companies: paying for employees' hobbies, allowing our team to work from anywhere, even footing the bill for fresh fruits and veggies in our staff members' homes.

Jason Fried

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I'm a red meat lover. I eat carbs. I love carbs.

Donovan Bailey

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But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.

Debbie Harry

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The people I hang out with tend to use Macs, not that I think they're necessarily superior.

William Gibson

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I read the script. If I like it, I would do anything I am asked to.

Sushant Singh Rajput

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