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Garth Nix Quotes

I like to write books that I would have liked as a child, that would have got me thinking and imagining beyond the words on the page. In a way, my audience is always how I remember myself as a child.

Garth Nix

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Myself Words Child Me Thinking Page

But we moderns are impatient and destructive.

John Crowe Ransom

Destructive Impatient

The approach that the music industry took to fight piracy was the wrong strategy.

MC Hammer

Music Fight Strategy Wrong Industry

I grew up completely overwhelmed by TV, and part of the reason why I have gone into television is as a way to justify to myself all those wasted hours of watching TV as a kid. I can now look back and say, 'Oh, that was research.'

Matt Groening

Myself Research Look Back Television

I'm into something that definitely does require your attention, and with that, you're not going to run out of things to do. You're never going to be the master of music.

Roscoe Mitchell

Music Attention You Run Never Out

Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As a victim, I was beneath the dignity of the bullies in my year but fair game to the ones in the year below.

Robert Webb

Game Slow Year Dignity Sound Coward

From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.

Mary C. Jones

Positive Improvement Reading Sight

I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimillionaire who owned 12 hotels, motels, a steel mill, a radio station, a club, nursing home, and a law office. So I think it's safe to say I'm a little above middle class and I'm a daddy's girl.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

Father Home Girl People Law Think

I grew up playing hockey and baseball, so I wish I had time to get back into it, but living in L.A. and North Carolina, you have to take advantage of the golf.

Diego Klattenhoff

Time Baseball Hockey Golf Wish You

I actually don't hope for a legacy. I think that it impedes your ability to make the hard decisions if you sit around saying, 'How will this affect my legacy?'

David Stern

Hope Legacy Saying Think Decisions

Never say never. I always want to look like myself - that's key for me. I don't want to look like a different person, I don't want my face frozen.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

Myself Me Face Key Look Person

'Les Miserables', the book, 'Les Miserables', the musical - it's about giving; it's about goodness. It's about compassion and love.

Colm Wilkinson

Love Compassion Book Giving Goodness

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Brian Clough

Death Flowers Me You Alive Dead