Terry Pratchett Quotes

Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW.

Terry Pratchett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 28, 1948 - March 12, 2015

Topics

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The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.

Jennette McCurdy

MusicMoving OnPastRootsMoving

My mom eventually got out to Oxnard and started a produce company and was in the strawberry business. My pops was out of the picture by the time I was 7.

Anderson Paak

BusinessTimeMomPictureCompany

My dad was a preacher.

Matthew Desmond

PreacherDad

I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I'm more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

DanceInterestingHouseMoreLittle

I learned how to write TV by writing 'Grey's Anatomy.'

Shonda Rhimes

WritingGreyWriteAnatomyTVHow

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

Jonathan Swift

FoolKissWineDrinkNoseKnew

What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid.

Johnny Rivers

PeopleSmokingRememberBackTurn

In point of fact, I'm not sure there are too many comedies with laugh tracks anymore. Most of what you hear is live studio audience laughing as a show is filmed. If this prompts you to wonder who those actual human beings are who are laughing at some of this stuff, that is a mystification I share.

Christopher Lloyd

LiveLaughYouWonderHumanPoint

Maybe it's because I'm English, but in terms of how people perceive us I only pick up on the negative side of it.

Chris Martin

PeopleNegativeUpSideUsEnglish

It was stunning actually, because what you would hope for from our national leaders is some reflection, some understanding that the situation that we encountered in Iraq was not what we expected, that it was not what he said it would be.

Chris Van Hollen

HopeReflectionUnderstandingYou

Using medicine in the service of cosmesis is generally bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for democracy. The only exceptions are when we know the intervention will actually reduce suffering, as with a primary cleft lip repair.

Alice Dreger

ServiceSufferingDemocracyMedicine

Dubbing for myself in Hindi is a big task. I know Hindi. I can read and write Hindi, but I dont normally speak the language, and that is very important.

Prabhas

MyselfSpeakLanguageI CanKnow

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