Graham Swift Quotes

I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.

Graham Swift

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 4, 1949

Topics

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Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art.

John Lasseter

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Having no competition is a bad thing. Competition makes you try to improve yourself all the time.

Shu Qi

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I've learned to recognize, a lot of it forced through the process of recovery, that I'm wired wrong in certain ways; the chemical balance of my brain is off in terms of depression a little bit.

Trent Reznor

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I am at a climbing area called the Wendenstock in Switzerland. This area has some of the best quality multi-pitch climbing I have seen on limestone. There is about a two-hour approach on one of the steepest grass slopes I have ever seen. The setting is amazing.

Tommy Caldwell

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I have worked for a lot of really great leaders and mentors that I felt provided me, along with many of my peers - many of them women - opportunities.

Mary Barra

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I've done a lot of dumb things in my life.

Jason Momoa

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Right around 2004 when 'Ray' came out, I made a conscious decision to be more discerning because I thought to myself, 'After something like this, I really have to try to be strong enough to turn stuff down.'

Bokeem Woodbine

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Nick Abraham and I had known each other from Ryerson University.

Ari Millen

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I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.

William Steig

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To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

William Penn

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I did a play in high school, then one in college. My first professional experience was off-off-Broadway. I'm conveniently blocking the title. I'm sure I was terrible.

Peter Riegert

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I could be a jerk and get a lot more publicity, but that's not who I am.

Pete Sampras

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