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Markus Zusak Quotes

In the case of 'The Book Thief,' my research was hearing the stories of my parents when I was a child. But I started changing the stories when I began moulding the book.

Markus Zusak

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: australian
Birth: June 23, 1975

Topics

Child Parents Research Book Hearing

As a competitor and an athlete, you love that you get to go back and challenge someone, especially the world champs.

Tony Romo

Love Challenge World Someone You Go

The acquisition of an accurate and easy conversation, of some skill in music, and in pure and healthful diversions, are of great benefit in fitting one for social intercourse, in which one of the greatest sources of pleasure is found.

Joseph P. Bradley

Music Great Easy Conversation Skill

We Chinese are instinctively democratic, and Dr. Sun's objective of universal suffrage evokes from all Chinese a ready and unhesitating response.

Chiang Kai-shek

Sun Ready Suffrage Democratic

Growing up I felt like my nose was big. I was always like, 'I'm going to get a nose job one day'. I'm glad I didn't.

Ashlee Simpson

Day Job Growing Up Growing One Day

I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country.

Philip Yancey

People Grace Book Free Gift Hands

Because, first of all, we were becoming aware during that tour that there was a group of people that was following the band around, and they weren't interested in coming in to the shows, they were just interested in hangin' out outside and tryin' to break in.

Phil Lesh

People Group Band First Outside Out

I never wanted to model myself on a female singer, which tells you a lot about my character. I didn't have a female role model. There just wasn't anybody around. I played with the boys and beat them at their own game.

Suzi Quatro

Character Myself Game You Role Model

I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows.

Paul Taylor

Now Want Build Backyard Low Knows

Me and my buddies are all like brothers. So it's okay for us to say 'I love you' or whatever. It's always cool. I think that comes from my dad. That's just the way he always was.

Paul Walker

Love I Love You Me Cool Think You

There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.

Scott Adams

Pet You Kind She Pay Cat

We know the cyclones will come because we are in the wind sector. It cannot be consistent high wind; sometimes, it can be low wind. We are designing our turbines assuming that one day even a cyclone will come.

Tulsi Tanti

Day Wind Know Sometimes One Day Low

I've been awed by the incredible opportunities that automatically float to the Harvard undergrads I once taught - from building homes for the poor in Nicaragua to landing prime White House internships.

Nina Easton

Building Opportunities House White