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Nick Hornby Quotes

Youth is a quality not unlike health: it's found in greater abundance among the young, but we all need access to it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Health Quality Youth Young Abundance

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

Life Positive Tough Times Negative

I'm just a very normal person, living in north London, doing my best for my area and to put forward some serious debate on issues in the party.

Best Forward Doing Party Living

I eventually realized that good things wouldn't happen to me if I didn't make the right choices.

Good Me Good Things Choices Right

Fact doesn't have to be plausible; it just has to be fact.

John Lanchester

Just Fact Plausible

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Romantic People Think Thought Famous

Being against other people's policies eventually puts you in a downward spiral. It's fine to be principled and oppose views that you don't agree with, but you also have to have an alternative.

People You Spiral Against Agree

Writing a screenplay needs to be more than words on a page - and by the way, I think the words on the page are something you have to try to execute on the highest level you can; I'm not dismissing that by any regard.

Words Writing Think You Page Way

Not to get political, but it seems like every day I read the paper, and you're reading about nuclear war and Russians taking over the country and Nazis again. It's like every once in a while, the world blinks for a second, and it goes, 'Darkseid is!' The world has changed, and it's changed in a 'Darkseid is' way.

Day War World Reading Political You

I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertaining people too much.

People Late Too Much Awesome Dancing

I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Life Funny People Disappointment Me

If you aren't already a songwriter, try it. When you can say what you want to say, in your own words, it's incredibly easy to show an audience who you are.

Words Easy You Say Want Try

I love Adult Swim. They give you so much artistic freedom.

Love Freedom You Swim Adult Give

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