Kevin Crossley-Holland Quotes

Like any decent researcher, I throw away 90% of my research.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 7, 1941

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ResearchAwayDecentThrowLikeAny

I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.

Jensen Ackles

TimeBadI CanGoNervousFirst

If I ever have a son, and if he wants to follow in my footsteps in Formula 1, my main responsibility will be to point out some of the negatives.

Jenson Button

SonResponsibilityWillFollowOut

In high school I was always thinking, 'Should I be doing more? What else should I be doing?' Now I know it will all come to me. I just have to trust my path, so that's very different.

Jenna Dewan

PathTrustSchoolMeThinkingDoing

When you accept a role in a pilot, you automatically sign up for five years. You think it's scary to walk down the aisle? Try signing a five-year contract for a show you may not want to be part of down the road.

Jennifer Aniston

WalkRoadThinkYouDownWant

I think baseball was really reality when I was a freshman in high school.

Andrew Benintendi

SchoolBaseballHigh SchoolThink

The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.

Andrew Bogut

SmartYouBackPlayWantFloor

When you are brought up as a frozen child, you go on freezing. It wasn't until I had my four sons, who have brought me immense joy, that I began to thaw. That I realised how utterly extraordinary my childhood was.

John le Carre

ChildhoodJoyChildMeYouGo

I started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning 10 pounds a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15.

Robert Pattinson

MoneyDoingWeekEarningStarted

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

Jeanette Winterson

ChangeYourselfYouWriteFiction

One of the things that I try to do when I have a tough time with anything - whatever it may be - is just look at someone else's situation. Here in Staten Island, look, I have people that have children that haven't been back in their home for 18 months after Sandy. They lost every worldly possession.

Michael Grimm

HomeChildrenTimePeopleTough

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

John Philip Sousa

PeopleFeetLongJazzWillEndure

Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story.

Mikhail Bulgakov

NightStoryShortTrainNewspaper

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