Nick Hornby Quotes

I have the same interests as women. Well, apart from football and music, obviously. I've always had as many female friends as male ones. The novels I read as a young man were all by women writers, and when I started writing, I wanted to set my books inside the home.

Nick Hornby

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I learned Punjabi before I learned English in spite of the fact that I was born in Canada.

Jinder Mahal

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I realised as a teenager that I was destined for a creative life and found that fashion design was something I enjoyed and was a potentially successful career path.

Jenny Packham

LifePathCreativeFashionDesign

The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate.

Andrew Motion

BestGoBullGateLikePoems

I get offered: 'Here's a girl who's mad at another girl for having a wedding on the same day.' That'll be a big hit, but I don't want to do that.

Amy Heckerling

GirlDayWeddingMadWantBig

Whether it is to reduce our carbon-dioxide emissions or to prepare for when the coal and oil run out, we have to continue to seek out new energy sources.

Martin Rees

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To me, freedom of speech and debate are necessary inputs in solving any of our nation's problems, from homelessness and economic inequality to banking, the environment, and national security. Freedom of speech is what Larry Lessig would call a 'root' issue; working on free speech is striking at a root issue.

Marvin Ammori

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If I have one advantage, it's that I will try to work harder than the next guy.

Jay Leno

WorkWillTryNextGuyAdvantage

With voice overs... you're not thinking about the camera. So your voice becomes this thing that you can manipulate. And depending on the character you're doing, it's all concentration on your voice.

Avan Jogia

CharacterVoiceThinkingDoingYou

A lot of my albums that I've done, a lot of the songs have been the first take. It's before you mess with it too much - you can take away all the spontaneity and the emotion of something by trying to make it sound perfect.

Alison Elliott

TryingYouPerfectToo MuchDone

Women are used to worrying over trifles.

Susan Glaspell

WomenOverUsedWomen AreWorrying

If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.

Payne Stewart

YourselfPeopleThinkLaughYouSee

I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, especially from the bottom up. I think that part of this is bottom up as well as top down.

Richard Rogers

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