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Aidan Chambers Quotes

I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they're just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.

Aidan Chambers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: December 27, 1934

Topics

Time People Me Compromise Thinking

I did a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio, and his skill level was eons ahead of mine. It was really more like an abattoir - he just slaughtered my character over and over again.

John C. Reilly

Character Skill Ahead More Over

My long, blonde hair has been my trademark ever since I started modelling in the Seventies, when I was scouted sunbathing in St Tropez.

Jerry Hall

Hair Blonde Long Seventies Started

I don't know if this is a stumbling block, but I had a real setback when I won a Nebula Award for the first story I ever had nominated for a Nebula in 1982. And you might think that was a good thing - and it was a wonderful thing, I don't regret it a bit. But I was sort of discombobulated by it.

John Kessel

Good Regret Story Think Award You

When you're the artsy, weirdo, introverted outsider growing up, you don't fit into your community.

Stephen Karam

Community Growing Up You Growing Up

I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket.

Moe Howard

Me Looking Stand Someone Knowing

I really love to set things in places that are real to me.

Joyce Carol Oates

Love Me Places Real Things Set

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Alistair Cooke

Intelligence Curiosity

I have a fantastic team, and it's much easier having children, because that creates a natural limit.

Phoebe Philo

Children Team Having Children Limit

I think most people write from what they see in their own world, which is maybe why we so often see an African-American woman as the best friend, or the one you bring in when you need some sass. It's like we're put in a box.

Tika Sumpter

Friend Best Woman People World You

'Rainy Dayz' and 'Glaciers of Ice,' those two songs - I mean, I just love those songs.

Rza

Love Ice Mean Two Glaciers Just

Staging Formula One is incredibly expensive.

Mario Andretti

Expensive Formula One Formula Staging

I've never been to a festival. I'm a creature of habit, mashed-potato comfort, I like rugs. Our sofa's squishy. Maybe too squishy - it's hard to get up sometimes.

Martin Freeman

Habit Comfort Sometimes Never Hard