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Francis Spufford Quotes

Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it, is the greatest pleasure I know.

Francis Spufford

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: english
Birth: 1964

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Selfishness Know Why Write Pleasure

I love championships. That's when I want to be at my best. I love those environments. It brings the best out of me.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

Love Best Me Want Out Championships

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

Jensen Ackles

Failure Live People Eye Name Week

It confirms for me that we did something on Days that meant something. We had our ups and downs, but Missy and I and some of the other actors, created something that was really memorable.

Matthew Ashford

Me Ups And Downs Memorable Days Some

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Ambrose Bierce

Humor American Salt Intellectual Wit

You don't get time to meet your peers such as Dharmendra and Hema Malini very often. Award functions or other events are the only places you meet them, unless there is an emergency. Then we all come together.

Amitabh Bachchan

Time Together Award You Meet Places

I think my family does a good job of letting me be a regular teenager, which we all need.

Storm Reid

Family Good Job Me Think Need

Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.

Tom Carper

Family Future Money Enough Year Pay

That's the good thing about pop. You can do whatever you like... it's a bendable medium.

Roisin Murphy

Good You Whatever Pop Like About

With a novel, you're the director and the screenwriter and everything else, except that you have to write it knowing it will all be performed inside the head of the reader. So it's a difficult and lonely task.

Jason Henderson

Lonely You Will Knowing Difficult

Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital.

Paul Tudor Jones

Financial Intellectual Will Always

The first time I had a baked potato, I was eight years old at a friend's house. Most white kids growing up have a baked potato every day. I didn't even know what to do with it, how to open it. I was the only white kid in high school eating octopus.

Scott Fujita

Friend Time Day School Growing Up

My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.

Novak Djokovic

Learning Father Together Interesting