Nick Bantock Quotes

One minute I was completely unknown, barely able to feed my family, living on pennies. The next minute, Katie Couric was interviewing me on the breakfast show.

Nick Bantock

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: July 14, 1949

Topics

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Approaching my second novel was, admittedly, a bit of a struggle. But having an amazing team at Atheneum Books, especially my very patient, brilliant editor Namrata Tripathi, took a stressful situation and turned it into a really great learning experience for me.

John Corey Whaley

LearningGreatExperienceStruggle

But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.

Andrea Martin

FamilyI AmPeopleLoseCountryAm

I find it very strange when people say that they are trying to solve 'Uncle Vanya' or find a solution for 'Henry V.' Plays aren't puzzles. They are about playing. But so much theatre has become about performing and acting rather than playing, which is a great pity because audiences are captivated by watching people play.

Robert Lepage

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I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

Robert Mapplethorpe

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I don't like when people expect too much, because then I'll only be disappointed if things don't work out.

Matthias Schoenaerts

WorkPeopleToo MuchOutExpect

I have always loved to skate, and that is all I wanted to do. Having my whole, entire career taken away from me by somebody else - not losing it myself - I do have blame, but when somebody takes your whole, entire life away from you, and you don't know what to do, it's like you're lost.

Tonya Harding

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'XIII' is a spy show. I think the comic book is a little too similar to 'The Bourne Identity.' I tried to take it away from that. I believe there was, many years ago, before the Bourne movies, a lawsuit that made it so they couldn't be published in English.

Roger Avary

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Some social scientists say that in-group/out-group biases are hard-wired into the human brain. Even without overt prejudice, it is cognitively convenient for people to sort items into categories and respond based on what is usually associated with those categories: a form of statistical discrimination, playing the odds.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.

Mike Birbiglia

ComedyI CanTryAlwaysHonestMost

Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.

Ludwig Quidde

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I was cripplingly shy. When I was in high school, my teachers thought I was mentally disabled because I wouldn't be able to say anything or do anything. They thought I didn't speak.

Lou Barlow

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When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time.

Christopher Hitchens

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