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Garth Nix Quotes

I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time.

Garth Nix

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: australian
Birth: July 19, 1963

Topics

Time Waiting Book Think Anxiety

I feel comfortable singing in the great cathedrals of the world because I spent so much time as a child singing in church. And it isn't very different. Of course, nothing looks quite like Notre Dame de Paris.

Jessye Norman

Great Time Child Singing World Feel

If people ever talked the way advertising sounded, they would be put away.

Jerry Della Femina

People Advertising Way Away Would

As you can probably tell, I like films and directors that bring a totally unique style to filming action.

John Foster

Style Action You Unique Tell Bring

I think we can have some tax reform, but that doesn't mean tax increases. We ought to make the, the rates flatter. We ought to get rid of a bunch of those loopholes.

John Kasich

Think Tax Mean Reform Get Some

A court is like a scene, people want to see attractive people.

Anna Kournikova

People Want See Attractive Court

It's not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can't run your family like a company. It doesn't work.

Andy Grove

Work Family Children Time Enough

My mother fiercely valued education. She entered college the same year I did, in 1979, and graduated eight years later. She was a remarkable role model for all of us.

Tom Perez

Education Mother College Year She

People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay.

Moby

People Wealth Fame Will Assume Keep

I was shaped by my mistakes.

Janice Dickinson

Mistakes Shaped

It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did.

Douglas Coupland

Fun Brain You Look Back Nobody

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.

Donna Tartt

Learning Ideas Consequences Seriously

If explicit metadata is a real problem, it raises problems that just can't be solved. It's not that we're not good at it; it's the problems cannot be solved because we're not going to agree about these deep questions of how we organize.

David Weinberger

Good Problems Deep Questions Problem