Nick Hornby Quotes

When most people come in from work, 95 percent of them reach for the remote control. Then they read before they go to sleep, to get off to sleep. They do that because reading feels like a duty, and TV feels like fun.

Nick Hornby

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The fundamental job of the actor is to tell about the human condition, to be a voice for the truest ideas and deepest emotions.

Joel Grey

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To get back to the kind of shared prosperity and upward mobility we once considered normal will require another era of fundamental reform, of both our economy and our democracy.

Robert Reich

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Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.

John Hench

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Becoming a vampire is forever. You don't get to change your mind about it later. For me, I think that's one of the big drawbacks with anything that's permanent. How do you know how you're going to feel in five years or 10 years? Even with a tattoo.

Stephenie Meyer

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As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

Robert A. Dahl

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I know how to do anything, I'm a mom.

Roseanne Barr

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You - as a director, you have to do your job, you have to show things, and you don't have to ask the actors to do it, or the dialogue.

Michel Hazanavicius

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As long as it's funny, there's no such thing as too far.

Lucy Punch

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I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on.

Janice Dickinson

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I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

Bret Easton Ellis

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You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

William J. H. Boetcker

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The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, you're going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think it's the main stuff.

Peter Hammill

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