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Graeme Base Quotes

The English probably do that wordplay kind of humour and whimsy better than anyone, and I've always felt that my writing goes more to that than what I did when I came to Australia.

Graeme Base

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: english
Birth: April 6, 1958

Topics

Writing Better Australia Kind More

Don't tell people you're smart; let them find out on their own.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Smart People You Find Out Tell

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.

Slavoj Zizek

World Questions New Ask Need Left

Being honest about being bullied in school and my bipolar was not so much of a 'do I or don't I?'; it was waiting for the right time. Even before I knew what making a mark on the world meant, I knew I wanted to make a difference.

Ruby Rose

Time School Waiting World Right Time

Whenever I've tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It's something I do automatically - I've learnt to immediately adapt.

Mitski

Community Myself Me Too Much Adapt

I first went to 'Rocky Horror' when I was 14, and nothing was the same after that. For about two months afterwards, I would watch that movie in my bed every night.

Liv Bruce

Night Bed Nothing Horror First Same

I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Women Technology Think Possible

It's hard to imagine the whole punk movement without The Velvet Underground. I toured with them when they did their reunion tour, and no one sounds like that; they are a very unique-sounding band.

Dean Wareham

Reunion Band Hard Movement Punk

Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.

Cory Doctorow

Together People Think Long Skin Get

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

Anne Frank

Experience Me Writing Someone Never

You don't need Math to do business reporting. Business is all about choices that consumers make.

Richard Quest

Business Choices You Need Consumers

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

Richard Carlson

Stress Nothing Mental Illness More

I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.

Mark Haddon

Better Mean Two Fiction Only Most