Nick Hornby Quotes

Your failure to enjoy a highly rated novel doesn't mean you're dim - you may find that Graham Greene is more to your taste, or Stephen Hawking or Iris Murdoch or Ian Rankin. Dickens, Stephen King, whoever.

Nick Hornby

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FailureKingEnjoyYouFindMean

What I'd love to do would be to bring a person from the past to me. In that case I'd pick Jane Austen, because I'd like to know what really made her tick. It's my opinion that she was inhibited by her family and a desire to do the right thing. Away from all that, I believe she'd show new facets and enjoy the adventure.

Jo Beverley

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As an immigrant, I learned by watching other people.

John Cho

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It would be my goal for Palin to become Oprah and be the ultimate kingmaker for twenty-odd years.

Andrew Breitbart

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I grew up pretty peacefully, in that Eastern way. You easily solve problems, believe in harmony. Reduce conflicts, take orders until one day you give orders.

Ang Lee

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I'm not a trained academic. Neither am I a veteran social worker. I was 26 years in the corporate world, trying to make organizations profitable. And then in 2003 I started Parikrma Humanity Foundation from my kitchen table.

Shukla Bose

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Fans say I have a lot of sorrow in my eyes. It's true.

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

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I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.

Miranda Kerr

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The most frustrating thing to me is when I tell people I work on 'Friday Night Lights,' they'll say, 'Oh, I hear that's a really good show.' They never watched it.

Jason Katims

WorkGoodPeopleMeNightFriday

But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.

Jon Postel

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I think, we all learned that when we are afraid it's easy to want to blame, and the people we want to blame are the people who don't look like us.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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Sarah Vaughan is one of my greatest heroes. She personifies what an artist is all about, taking risks, daring to go beyond the boundaries of safety and convention. It takes courage to share your vulnerability.

Claron McFadden

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The history of racial violence in our country is both omnipresent and unspoken. It is a smog that surrounds us that few will admit is there.

Clint Smith

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