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Nick Hornby Quotes

I only want to write books and movies about women.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Women Want Movies Write Only Books

Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now.

Future Best Long Now Run Talk

I started acting when I got a summer job at the Everyman Theater Company with the Neighborhood Youth Corps.

Job Youth Acting Summer Company Got

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.

Michael Ignatieff

Good Experience War Good Things End

We were constantly traveling between Malaysia and Singapore, which is connected by a bridge at the southernmost end of Malaysia. In fact, when I was a child, I had to go between countries twice a day to go to school, because I was living in Malaysia at the time but attending primary school in Singapore.

Time Day School Child Bridge End

Every country should conduct its own reforms, should develop its own model, taking into account the experience of other countries, whether close neighbours or far away countries.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Experience Country Far Away Own Away

You'd be surprised. Girls like sensitive, namby-pamby guys.

You Like Sensitive Surprised Guys

'Spinal Tap' influenced me, I think, specifically in making me really pay attention to tone.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Me Think Attention Pay Attention Pay

In 1955, when I'd write a science-fiction novel, I'd set it in the year 2000. I realised around 1977 that, 'My God, it's getting exactly like those novels we used to write in the 1950s!' Everything's just turning out to be real.

God Year Write Real Everything Out

By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade.

Shigeru Yoshida

World Development Legislative Trade

Years ago, I did a CBS audition. I was nervous. They introduced me as 'Scott Bakoola.' Not a good sign. I also didn't get the show.

Good Me Nervous Years Show Get

A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm's length. They can be really funny, but they're not really nourishing.

Funny You Kind Clever Difficult

Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.

Me Research Writing Book Foundation

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