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Richard Flanagan Quotes

I hate the way my life has been inexplicably overwhelmed by questionnaires. Life is so much stranger and so much more beautiful than the lists that reduce it to an anorexic assembly of tics and obsessions.

Richard Flanagan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: australian
Birth: 1961

Topics

Life Beautiful Hate My Life Way

After the acquisition of id by Zenimax, we had sort of taken the mobile platform team down to a skeleton crew. We were left with about two people who were finishing up the previous obligations on that. The rest had just been dispersed and absorbed by the other teams in the company.

John Carmack

People Team Rest Down Finishing Up

It's a very special venue and a very special occasion.

Matthew Hayden

Special Venue Special Occasion Very

If someone makes you feel wrong-footed, you're unlikely to find them witty.

Rosamund Pike

Feel Someone You Find Witty Makes

Hillary Clinton had scheduled an interview while I was at the height of the Weinstein reporting, and her folks got in touch and said, 'We hear you're working on a big story,' sounded very concerned, and tried to cancel the interview.

Ronan Farrow

Story You Said Touch Height Big

I think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And that's why, over the years, in my movies I've had characters who didn't care what people thought about them. We try to be as true to them as possible and maybe see part of ourselves in there that we may not like.

Martin Scorsese

People Think Thought Care Possible

I'm sorry to say cancer can kill you, but it doesn't make you a better person.

Molly Ivins

Sorry Better Person Better You Say

When I left Yale, I was prepared to write anything.

Mitch Leigh

Write Anything Left Prepared Yale

The age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.

Liv Tyler

Girl Age Woman Start Blossom You

The only thing that can stop me from being me is me.

Jason Pierre-Paul

Me Stop Being Only The Only Thing

You know the secret to dunking a ball? Big hands. You've got to be able to palm it, and I couldn't.

Johnny Mathis

Hands You Know Palm Secret Big

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

Brett Ratner

You Show Movie Theater Really

I look at 'Love Child' and it's as if it was written by someone else - someone who knew what they were doing.

Allegra Huston

Love Child Someone Doing Look Knew