Nick Hornby Quotes

In a way, novel writing is such a permanently student lifestyle. When it comes to movies, and you have to go to these meetings and try and impress people and get money out of them, I feel as though I'm playacting at being somebody who's grown up.

Nick Hornby

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Jim Hightower

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To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

Joey Ramone

MusicPeopleMeEmotionsBecause

As a woman, on any film or any show, we do most of the emoting.

Andrea Riseborough

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You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.

John Oates

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Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.

John McGraw

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I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.

Robert Redford

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It's wonderful to be able to have such wildly different projects in your body of work. They don't feel different to me as I'm working on them. It feels like they all share this element of subversiveness and finding the joy in subversiveness.

Robert Lopez

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I'm not the sexiest thing in the world, I feel actors who have to 'play' sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with the tongue and the heavy lids, it looks so ridiculous. I think you just have to be yourself.

Stephanie Zimbalist

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When I was young, I would go to the races and it was an unbelievable feeling when you'd watch them race.

Mats Sundin

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My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot.

Monique Coleman

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I saw the original that Gela Babluani wrote and directed called '13 Tzameti,' and that was very interesting. I believe it was a French film, and I was just intrigued by the awkwardness; the off-beatness of the film really just grasped me.

David Zayas

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Tel Aviv is buzzing with so much life, you could bottle it and sell it as honey, and even Jerusalem has a certain fizz. But if you want to see anger, go to Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem on a Friday afternoon.

Clive Sinclair

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