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Giles Foden Quotes

Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for whom all national boundaries are quaint curiosities.

Giles Foden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: english
Birth: 1967

Topics

Path Generation Late Boundaries Whom

In many ways, it's easier to write a book. You have more latitude with structure, and you have the freedom to luxuriate within the internal lives and musings of your characters. But where a screenplay does not always demand great prose, a novel lives or dies by it.

John Fusco

Freedom Great Book You More Write

It strikes me as odd that we've made journeys with our social conditioning in certain areas, but not in others. The world is always changing; discoveries in technology and science relentlessly expose our dearest values as fictions.

Michaela Coel

Technology Science Me World Values

My mum always had fun on shoots, but afterwards, she would pick us up from school and make dinner. I had a pretty normal childhood.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

Childhood School Fun Dinner She Up

Guys aren't threatening. Other girls are the competition. You are usually what they're fighting over.

Jonathan Bennett

Competition Fighting You Over Guys

They'll invite you to all the parties, but that doesn't mean you have to go all the time.

Johnny Olson

Time You Go Mean Invite Parties

Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, connecting people.

Brion James

Together People Nothing More Than

I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.

Brit Marling

Myself I Am Looking Think Push Find

I like Badshah's songs, as they are very cool, catchy, and very young. I think that's very important... It's connecting with the youth.

Armaan Malik

Cool Youth Think Important Young

I make a point of not reading reviews because of the old adage, if you read the good ones then you have to read the bad ones, and if you read the bad ones, you have to, you know... And also because it's a very, very bewildering and exposing thing.

Peter Morgan

Good Reading You Bad Know Old

You can talk about Michael Jackson all you want, but John Hughes was the soundtrack to my 1980s life.

Shawn Amos

Life You Want Talk 1980s Soundtrack

Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

Thomas Sowell

Government Data Cry Nothing Never

I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you get the benefit of everyone's opinions and so it's not just about you in your you-dom.

Kiki Smith

Art Bee Think Friends Opinions You