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Nick Flynn Quotes

The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.

Nick Flynn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 26, 1960

Topics

Sister Book Legend Picture Help Old

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Jim Rash

Work Thinking You Stop Something

I'm a vegetarian, and I long for people to eat less meat, but the thing to do is not to go, 'Eat! Less! Meat!' It's to say, 'I am fit as a flea and I'm 63, I haven't eaten meat for 40 years, and I never get diseases, I'm never ill, and I'm full of energy. So how's about that?'

Joanna Lumley

I Am People Energy Long Go Say

When I grew up, there were no songs about gay people.

Melissa Etheridge

People Gay Up Songs About Were

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

Michael Caine

Character Doing Week Year Play Did

God may not accept a person to forgive him his sins, without an atonement, else he must give free license to sin both in angels and men, and then sin were no sin, and our God were no God.

John Wycliffe

God Men Free Person Sin Angels

Most people in protest mobs are pretty sincere and don't want to fight cops or break things.

John Sandford

Fight People Want Break Pretty Most

The way consumers interact with music is different now. It's not an albums business anymore; it's a singles business again, and the industry has gone through that before.

Troy Carter

Business Music Now Way Through Gone

Linda loves an argument, and I like to engage, too, but she knows that I'm a poet, so I will engage forever. We are in the Chinese astrology of dogs, and we are forever snapping at each other.

Donovan

Argument Will She Dogs Engage Poet

I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while I'm writing a draft, but I do listen to it when I'm revising.

Donald Ray Pollock

Music Writing Listen Monster Magnet

Low-value payments are now possible. Now, Ripple can make it easy for Facebook and Uber and Amazon to make payments to developers in real time. It's online and completely global.

Chris Larsen

Time Ripple Easy Now Possible Real

Too many new writers dress up old cliches.

Christopher Fowler

Dress New Old Up Many Cliches

There's probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might have been about me,' or, 'I know it's about me.' I do play that pretty close to the vest. I don't think I'm ever gonna write a song and drop somebody's name in it.

Chris Young

Me Song Think Name Play Know