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Richard Flanagan Quotes

I'm a successful novelist, and I've been a lucky one, so I don't want to cry the poor mouth. Writing has never been easy.

Richard Flanagan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: australian
Birth: 1961

Topics

Writing Easy Mouth Cry Want Poor

Losing is not fun. I know the fans don't like it, but they don't have to watch it every day. I have to watch it every day. I don't like watching bad teams.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Day Fun Losing Every Day Bad Know

I think there is sexy. And then there's tacky sexy. When you're young, you can get away with tacky sexy. I mean, it's not even tacky when you're young. But when you get older, it's just tacky.

Andie MacDowell

Think Sexy You Young Mean Get

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

Think Sometimes I Think Hyperbole

My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.

Matthew Stafford

Baseball Basketball Early Coach Did

I am both so beaten up and bolstered up - I've gotten so many criticisms and accolades - that the fulfillment happens on the floor in front of the camera, not when the project comes out.

I Am Camera Project Out Up Floor

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art.

Art Irony Not Interested Idea Making

The framing of how we relate to each other within and across social media platforms will continue to become more sophisticated and nuanced in their expression of how we structure our relationships in our real world lives.

Simon Mainwaring

Social Media World Media Will Become

Because, when I'm making music, I don't think about anything, you know? All I think about is what I want to hear. So that for me is what I want - I want my head to be constantly being rearranged.

Music Me Think You Know Want

I hate movies that tell people what to think. I'm proud that Democrats thought 'Thank You For Smoking' was their film and Republicans thought it was theirs. I'm proud that pro-choice people thought 'Juno' was their film and pro-life people thought it was theirs.

Hate People Proud Think Thought You

My guiding principle when writing with other people is that it's not worth it to give someone a song unless it hurts for me to give them that song.

People Me Writing Song Someone Give

I think it's impossible to maintain a good, strong, muscular physique without taking some supplements. Between the protein shakes and the multivitamins that I take, I use C4, the pre-workout mix. I try to keep it as basic as I can, but I think I would shrink and disappear if I stopped taking protein shakes.

Good Impossible Strong Think I Can

I grew up in the '90s, so I've definitely resurrected many looks from my youth lately, including overalls, jelly shoes, and, of course, Doc Martens.

Shoes Youth Looks Up Jelly Course

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