Nick Hornby Quotes

People love Jane Austen, even though those books are absurd to us, because we like the clarity of it: we can see very clearly what Elizabeth Bennett has to overcome, what she has to deal with.

Nick Hornby

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 17, 1957

Topics

LovePeopleClarityOvercomeSheUs

Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.

Joan Hickson

RetirementYouRetireProfession

Liability is being assessed against companies who inadvertently have shipped a virus to another company. Rather than risk the incredibly bad PR, these companies fork over.

John McAfee

BadRiskCompanyOverBeingAgainst

You could go so wrong with a 'Planet of the Apes' reboot; you could make it melodramatic, you could make it campy, you could fall into so many traps with it.

Andy Serkis

YouFallWrongGoPlanetMake

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

Jeff Bezos

PeopleBookCreateNarrativeReally

I've got the best job in the world; I love it. I get to meet so many interesting people, and I get to make sure that other people with disabilities can tell their own stories as well.

Stella Young

LoveBestJobPeopleWorldMeet

People seem to absorb my sound. It feels like they're one with me.

Trombone Shorty

PeopleMeSoundSeemLikeAbsorb

I guess there's only two possible places ideas can come from. One is the outside: everything that happens to you and everything that you do in life. And the other is the inside part: your own personality and imagination, and no two people are alike, like fingerprints.

Lloyd Alexander

LifePersonalityImaginationIdeas

The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

ProgressMoreNationRightsCounting

Sometimes I get the bug to live in London for a year, or something like that, and maybe I will. But New Jersey's home.

Brian Fallon

HomeLiveYearNewSometimesLondon

For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.

Alice McDermott

FamilyPeopleImmigrantFirstWho

Among other things, I use a Samsung mobile phone, a very bad quality video camera, and an old Olympus with extremely bad Sigma lenses.

Alison Jackson

QualityCameraBadPhoneOldThings

Miss Fontanne and I rehearse all the time. Even after we leave the theater, we rehearse. We sleep in the same bed. We have a script on our hands when we go to bed. You can't come and tell us to stop rehearsing after eight hours.

Alfred Lunt

TimeSleepHandsYouStopGo

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