Nick Bantock Quotes

Growing up in England, people told you why you couldn't do things. Suddenly, I had a publisher banging on my door, and was given the creative green light to simply make.

Nick Bantock

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I always like a charity with people who don't speak English because I get them to do all kinds of things around my house.

Joan Rivers

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I began writing fiction when I started running out of material in my own life.

Jen Lancaster

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The thing that stand-up does for you is that it toughens you up a bit as far as the business goes. It's hard. If a joke doesn't get a laugh, that's instant rejection. And that's mostly what this business is most of the time: a lot of rejection.

Melissa Rauch

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Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'

Mayim Bialik

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The United States has such an opportunity to be a leader in the world, and that opportunity has been frittered away.

Roger Waters

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There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.

Mary Steenburgen

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Book awards - in America, at least - are not like the Oscars. Awards are not cumulative, and in the case of something like the Pulitzers, the jurors often have another goal in mind: sales. They know that the Pulitzer stamp can sell a book.

Michelle Dean

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Before, you only had one Public Enemy and one Rakim and one Salt 'N' Pepa. Now, people have got the formula, and some of them are just doing it for the cheque. It's kind of watered down.

Missy Elliott

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I don't think Silicon Valley understands the power of Wikipedia, how it works, or the opportunities it represents.

Mitch Kapor

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The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing.

Milton Avery

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As well as being blind, Ma turned out to have the same mental illness that her mother had had. Between 1986 and 1990, she suffered six schizophrenic bouts, each requiring her to be institutionalised for up to three months.

Liz Murray

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There are people who are seekers and people who aren't.

Janine di Giovanni

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