Ngaio Marsh Quotes

What does 'Ngaio' mean? I don't know. Like many Maori words, it has a number of meanings - clever, light on the water, a little bug - but I don't know which my parents had in mind.

Ngaio Marsh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: new zealander
  • Birth: April 23, 1895 - February 18, 1982

Topics

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I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

Joel Osteen

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When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.

Matthew Perry

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Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.

John Sandford

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I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude.

Miguel

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Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

Lord Mountbatten

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I like using traditional beliefs in my fantasies, even though I always end up warping them to suit my purpose: it somehow makes everything feel more 'solid' if it's got a long history behind it.

Jonathan Stroud

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I really wait for the job to come. Whatever job comes up, I just want to keep working. The jobs don't always come, so you take whatever is available and hope it's a good one.

Debra Monk

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I would say growing up in Nashville has been a huge influence in my music. Growing up with my dad being a 2-time Grammy-winner, BMI songwriter of the year for five consecutive years in a row, and having the legacy he has is definitely a huge influence, too.

Chord Overstreet

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Monsters are a storytelling tool, like domestic realism and close third.

Colson Whitehead

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Most writers live in self-imposed exile, even when they don't leave their country. They prefer the undiscovered country inside their own heads.

Anthony McCarten

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The great 'New York Times' columnist Dave Anderson famously slept one year in a child's race-car bed. There he was, Pulitzer Prize and all, snoring as his feet dangled over the rear tires of Lightning McQueen.

Willie Geist

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