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Patrick O'Brian Quotes

I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

Patrick O'Brian

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: December 12, 1914 - January 2, 2000

Topics

Family Reading Letters Years Memoirs

A lot of problems get solved in those sort of in-between moments when your subconscious has been working on some problem. If you keep it spinning, you can fix ideas sometimes better than if you focus on them directly.

Andrew Sean Greer

Focus Ideas Problems Better Problem

My dad bought a Beatles tape when I was in fifth grade, and that was the first time I ever really - I mean I was into music, but that was the first time it really blew my mind. When I heard the 'Red Compilation,' which wasn't like a proper album, I thought, 'music was more than I had ever thought it was before.'

Music Time Red Mind Thought Mean

Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.

Robert J. Shiller

Best Reality Data You Become Aware

I'm happiest playing a match with my dad and a couple of college friends, taking a few bucks off them.

College Friends Playing Off Happiest

I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often.

Laugh Cry Never Wear Mascara Until

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

Yourself You Will Try Listen Out

Well, being a jazz musician is not a rose garden!

Toots Thielemans

Rose Garden Jazz Being Well

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.

Future Great Time Present Racing

I think I have a gene in me to always fight for the underdog, which I've done since I was a kid.

Fight Me Underdog Think Done Kid

We judge people in areas where we're vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we're doing.

People Judge Doing Shame Where Who

I'd always been acutely sensitive to my surroundings - and aware that I could make them rather than just observe them. So I began by designing interiors for myself, for friends, for clients - I just felt that I'd discovered my element, and those who really looked at what I was doing liked it - and the rest followed.

Myself Rest Friends Doing Clients

You can't make two films at the same time.

Sushant Singh Rajput

Time You Two Same Make Same Time

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