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Alan Garner Quotes

My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: October 17, 1934

Topics

Tongue Call Would Primary

It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.

Son Bird Football Basketball Hockey

When you're born into a showbiz family, the deck is stacked against you.

Family You Born Against Showbiz

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Good Goals Government Aesthetic

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

Robert Staughton Lynd

Suffering Own Only Glorious Thing

WordPress.com is the only service of its kind that not only lets you export your data, but gives you an open source package you can run on pretty much any web host out there to run your own instance of the software. So the freedom is really in your hands.

Freedom Service Data Hands You Run

Every new industry has exuberance in advance of reality. The techies get carried away. There is a period of despair. Then the pendulum swings the other way, and people see the long term potential. It's like when the Internet bubble crashed.

Steve Jurvetson

People Potential Reality Internet

I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick in a person's mind and have an atmosphere about them.

I Am People Mind Trying Person Want

I'm a casual F1 racing fan. I'm probably more of a stock car, NASCAR guy.

Car Racing More Casual Guy NASCAR

My dad worked for different companies that made whiskey for a long time, so we were definitely whiskey drinkers. Growing up, my friends would get toy cars, and I would get swag from whisky companies.

Time Growing Up Friends Long Growing

We need to change the culture of this topic and make it OK to speak about mental health and suicide.

Luke Richardson

Change Health Culture Speak Suicide

I love Shogun world. It's so beautiful. The performances are beautiful. It's like classic Japanese cinema, with a little 'Westworld' twist.

Love Beautiful World Cinema Classic

You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Reputation You Build Intend

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