Nick Hornby Quotes

Football really felt like a private thing when I was in my teens because it wasn't on television, for a start, apart from 'Match of the Day.'

Nick Hornby

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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There's something so delicious about holding onto a secret; it's something just for you.

Jenny Han

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Unlike Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, Jackie Robinson never tried to convert himself into an acceptable black man.

John Gregory Dunne

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I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell.

John Gurdon

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I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

Angelina Jolie

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A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

Michael Bergin

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The things we obsess about today, in 40 years seem trivial.

Michael Beschloss

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I can make a movie for $5M, which used to be a routinely low, independent movie, but there's no such thing as that any more.

John Waters

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I am one of those people who quite enjoys responsibility.

Stuart Pearce

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An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

Robert Baden-Powell

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I'm a big emotional mess. I try to talk about things that people don't like to talk about, especially in music. Hopefully it reaches someone and lets them access their vulnerability. That's what I want it to accomplish.

Mary Lambert

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'It's A Wonderful Life' still makes me cry happy tears, and my more recent favorite, 'Elf.'

Mary Page Keller

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I haven't really used Loki at all in 'Thor: God of Thunder' or the previous volume of Thor.

Jason Aaron

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