Terry Pratchett Quotes

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots.

Terry Pratchett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.

Jimi Hendrix

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Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president.

Jill Lepore

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It's not as though I decided to sit down and write a mystery novel so I could capitalize on my parents' success.

Jesse Kellerman

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I'd like to say to women everywhere: don't allow these right-wing talking heads, these dishonorable people, to intimidate you or scare you.

Maxine Waters

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When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

Steven Strogatz

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I rap about Memphis and what a dangerous spot that is.

Juicy J

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Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

Claude Bernard

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These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.

Clara Zetkin

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But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing.

Bruce Johnston

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I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults.

Ava DuVernay

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You just have to ensure that you make good films because audiences today have become picky and smart, and rightfully so.

Alia Bhatt

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When I came out to Hollywood, I was a crazy young kid who didn't have a lot of direction.

Scott Haze

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