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Rhianna Pratchett Quotes

When I was really young, Dad wasn't that well known. I don't remember when I realised he was a writer, but I do remember him leaving his full-time job at the Central Electrical Generating Board to concentrate on books.

Rhianna Pratchett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: designer
Nationality: english
Birth: December 30, 1976

Topics

Job Remember Young Leaving Him Well

I'm not good at narrative; I'm really a gag writer, and that comes from being in the newspaper comic strip world for a while in college. What I do is I just write tons of jokes, then I sort them out in terms of quality and then pick the best of the jokes and then try to form them into a plot. If I get a good theme going, I feel lucky.

Jeff Kinney

Good Best Quality College World Try

You put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike.

Siobhan Fahey

Feel You Something Like Loud Really

I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.

Snoop Dogg

Business Best Game Learn Become Rap

Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason?

Simon Sinek

Together Someone You Unique Why Two

When I do a concert and people put their hands in the air, they're doing it on their own.

Ronnie Spector

People Doing Hands Air Concert Own

When I was 16, I had a job on the cleaning crew at a local hospital. I wore a pink uniform and cleaned bathrooms and buffed the hallway linoleum. Oddly, I don't recall hating the job. I recall getting choked up at the end of the summer when I went to turn in my uniform and say goodbye to the ladies.

Mary Roach

Job Goodbye Pink End Uniform Summer

A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.

Jonathan Ames

Writing Action Landscape You Seeing

With all due respect to the other writers, I don't want to disparage any other writers; I don't want to have to invent a bigger villain than Deathstroke so Deathstroke can seem heroic fighting this bigger villain. I'd rather just have Deathstroke be who is, and he's kind of a bastard.

Christopher Priest

Respect Villain Fighting Want Kind

It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

Christopher Dodd

Food Easy Forget Eat Shelf Appear

I grew up Catholic. My mother is from El Salvador, so my family on her side is Roman Catholic. My father is Protestant, and while he was spiritual, he wasn't much of a churchgoing person. I think it's fairly common for families to be brought up in the mother's religion.

Christy Turlington

Family Father Mother Religion Think

We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen.

Brian Mulroney

Money Government Make It Happen Our

As a writer, I've always been interested in others.

Antonio Tabucchi

Others Always Been Writer Interested