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Nick Harkaway Quotes

Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: 1972

Topics

Nature World You Nothing Lottery

Never floss with a stranger.

Funny Never Stranger

Studios are often very nervous of things they don't recognize, by which I mean things that haven't been done before, and therefore, they take a really original idea, and they recognize the originality, and then they try and make it look like something they recognize. So they try to turn it into something far more procedural.

Look Done Nervous Try More Mean

Building followership and inspiration around female leadership is quite difficult to do.

Leadership Building Difficult Quite

Let's get one thing straight - there is a big difference between a quitter and someone who gives up. Unfortunately, I have the right to make this claim because I fit into the category of 'quitter.'

Someone Right Difference Up Big Get

It is such an uncertain universe out there that you have to create what I call 'real' options and develop capabilities that will enable you to deal with an environment that will change anyway.

Change Universe Environment You Will

I'm doing a bit of theatre: I'm doing a Mike Bartlett play called 'Contractions.' I'm very, very happy and lucky to be going back to the stage.

Happy Theatre Doing Back Play Lucky

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

Women Look Way Minds Begin Been

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.'

Life Work Live Day Think You

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

Work Alone Time Think Need Things

The techniques of contemporary poetry are probably the techniques of your daily life. I don't know a single person who goes into the grocery store and thinks in complete sentences. We often think in fragments, we think in little lists, we think in non-sequiturs, we think in feelings that may not match up with each other.

Life Daily Daily Life Poetry Think

It's a profound thing to watch another human being come out of your body.

Body Your Body Human Profound Out

If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece.

Peter Maxwell Davies

Music Balance Writing Society Think

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