Kate Grenville Quotes

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

Kate Grenville

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MeWorldLanguageDoingNothing

Now, I've never hosted a reality TV show, but I know the true mark of a successful businessman is not the number of times you say, 'You're fired.' It's the number times you say, 'You're hired.'

John Hickenlooper

RealityYouKnowSayTrueNever

You can't depend on the kind of folks people think they are - you've got to go by what they do. And I wouldn't give much for a man that some folks hadn't thought was a fool, in his time.

Stephen Vincent Benet

TimeFoolManPeopleThinkThought

It's the worst feeling, coming back after a performance when you are on a real high, and you go back alone to an apartment or a hotel room. People think we sit in hotels and eat bon bons. But the lifestyle can be very stressful.

Sondra Radvanovsky

AlonePeoplePerformanceThinkHotel

I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood.

Roman Coppola

HomeNowHollywoodYearsUpMoved

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

Logan Pearsall Smith

TalentMediocreGildedTomb

We have to give people dreams; we have to give people hope. In terms of government, in terms of society, that's our goal. You can't have a group of people that don't dream, that see themselves as dead or in jail.

Courtney B. Vance

DreamsHopeGovernmentPeopleGoal

You can't, as an actor, conduct yourself by making constant references to other people.

Peter Capaldi

YourselfPeopleYouActorMaking

The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

ManBornOwnWhoHisSuspects

I would love for women to be focused on maximum wage, and I have fought to be recognized with equality for a long time.

Marsha Blackburn

LoveWomenTimeEqualityLongWould

We was living in squats in Battersea when we started with Motorhead. And we lived with the Hell's Angels in this flat. They were always around.

Lemmy

HellLivingAngelsAlwaysLived

Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?

Kevin J. Anderson

MemoryRememberYouLookHeadUp

It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all.

Khaled Hosseini

LifeLightYouFameNiceKind

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