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Nick Hornby Quotes

Every time we pick up a book from a sense of duty and we find that we're struggling to get through it, we reinforce the notion that reading is something we should do, but telly is something that we want to do.

Nick Hornby

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Book Reading Find Want Duty

After a couple of attempts at making shorts, I decided to make a feature film with a friend, Tom Hall, whom I've worked with ever since.

John Carney

Friend Film Make Whom Making Shorts

A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel.

Jerry Della Femina

Age Forget Where Cancel Lot Readers

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years.

Joel Osteen

Friend Father Service Night Loved

I love leather vests and jackets, black leggings, black lips.

Jeffree Star

Love Black Lips Leather Jackets

But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen.

Steve Case

Day People Want Talk Happen Going

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

Mason Cooley

Greed Innocence Lust More Gullible

I wasn't always a novelist. I began my writing career as a journalist, working on an afternoon newspaper in Sydney, Australia, doing the crime beat and court reporting. Having grown up in a small country town, I felt as though I had nothing to write about.

Michael Robotham

Writing Small Doing Career Australia

It's emotional highs and lows in the game of golf.

Jason Day

Game Golf Emotional Highs Lows

If you're wearing a Bluetooth thing and you've got that thing on your belt, you are working for somebody else. You are not the guy in charge. That's a really good social status indicator.

Drew Carey

Good You Status Social Guy Working

My dad's my best mate, and he always will be.

Cher Lloyd

Best Will Always Father's Day He

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Chinua Achebe

Leadership Democracy Healthy Educated

'Slumdog' initiated a chain of events like going to Cannes and being invited to the Cairo Film Festival, which changed my perspective of cinema and of being an actor forever.

Arfi Lamba

Perspective Cinema Actor Events Film