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Nick Harkaway Quotes

If you ask who I aspire to, well, if a single line of mine was as funny as P. G. Wodehouse can be, that would be great.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: 1972

Topics

Funny Great You Ask Single Line

As dismayed as Americans are with the influence of the special interests that finance election campaigns, they've been reluctant to embrace the alternative: taxpayer-financed elections.

Finance Influence Election Embrace

I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants to explore the darkness. He wrote a great story called 'The Imp of the Perverse' about the instinct towards self-destruction. Poe is the godfather of Goth literature and that whole movement.

Great Darkness Story Think Movement

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

Queen Extraordinary Playing Drag

I traveled with the band for five years with Parkinson's.

Traveled Band Years Five Parkinson

I'm not a policy oriented person. I'm constrained to what I study. But educational policy has not yet taken adequate note of the whole child. Kids are not just their IQ or standardized test scores. It matters whether or not they show up, how hard they work.

Angela Duckworth

Work Child Person Test Matters Hard

I was certain when I was about 10 years old that I was going to be a special effects artist or a make-up man. I loved that stuff and pursued it for quite some time, actually.

Michael Carbonaro

Time Man Loved Artist Special Old

Let planning be the springboard, so that spirituality can be our splash.

Robin S. Sharma

Planning Splash Our Spirituality

I do think that the strongest character is somebody that you can connect with to your personal self, or at least find the humanity in both of you and start from there.

Ruthie Ann Miles

Character Start Think Self You Find

I think my style as far as vocal delivery and even down to the pronunciation of certain words is so deliberate.

Style Words Think Down Delivery Far

I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.

Mistakes Writing Think Place Kind

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

Perfection People Evil Society

Consensus doesn't happen by magic... You have to drive to it.

Christine Quinn

Drive Magic You Happen Consensus

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