Terry Pratchett Quotes

If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.

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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I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.

Jesse Eisenberg

MeStreetOutBeingGoingJust

When I started writing, I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way.

John Banville

GoodDreamsMemoriesGreatControl

Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.

Jennifer Aniston

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As an actor all we want to do is act and play people.

Angie Harmon

PeoplePlayWantActorAct

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Anais Nin

ReligionGrowPoliticalBecomeDogma

You want supply to always be full, and you use price to basically either bring more supply on or get more supply off, or get more demand in the system or get some demand out.

Travis Kalanick

YouPriceWantMoreAlwaysOut

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.

Tom Stoppard

LooksTurtleNowMattersPayServe

I don't think about my physical age.

Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

AgeThinkPhysicalAbout

Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene.

Jay Roach

StruggleJoyLaughterInteresting

One of my favorite dishes, absolutely from my childhood, was something my grandmother made, on my mother's side. It was a shepherd's pie, and I really adored that.

Dean Cain

MotherChildhoodPieGrandmother

I like, at the end of the night, to be walking back to the locker room limping and sweating, spitting blood out of my mouth. I've been doing this for a long time, and it comes naturally.

Dean Ambrose

TimeNightEndWalkingDoingMouth

I want people to learn from me, see I'm human, and understand that I make mistakes just like they do, but it doesn't have to consume you. You've got to walk through the raindrops, and that's totally what I am trying to do.

Corey Haim

WalkMistakesI AmPeopleMeLearn

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