Holly Black Quotes

When we talk about good books, we often talk about good sentences, but what we rarely talk about is reader pleasure. Yet it is reader pleasure that is going to make a book break out into the kind of success that makes it into a household name.

Holly Black

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 10, 1971

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Going out on a stage publicly and not knowing how people are going to react to you - once I experienced that, it made me feel much more comfortable about going into a scene.

Joaquin Phoenix

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Verbally, I'm quite fast on my feet. I could embarrass or anger most people if I wanted to.

Andrew Marr

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Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

Tom Stoppard

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My detractors are only accusing me of blowing up cars. What they have not realised is that my films have the potential to cross language barriers. New avenues have opened for Hindi films, and I'm proud and happy about it.

Rohit Shetty

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A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

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A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

Lorraine Hansberry

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It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.

Lorene Scafaria

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If I could be in any band, I think it would have to be The Beatles. That would have been a lot of fun.

Jason Behr

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When people ask me about what I learned from martial arts, I don't talk about favorite punches or kicks, or about fights won or lost. I talk about learning self-discipline, about ethics and manners and benevolence and fairness.

Jonathan Maberry

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I'd worked in the state senate in college and seen how important legal decisions were. And at the last minute, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison said, 'Why don't you come do an internship?' That turned into almost 15 years in the government, in the White House, and at the State Department.

Dina Powell

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It's a lot of work being an indie artist, but it's worth it.

Dawn Richard

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I like to be on set and see what the camera guys are up to. I like to see all the jobs that come together to make the thing you are also making.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

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