Garth Stein Quotes

Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.

Garth Stein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 6, 1964

Topics

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Initially, it was about kids at the bottom rung of the social ladder, due to their looks and their class background. But they're also outsiders in terms of their peer group.

Jim McKay

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I rarely asks people for advice or permission when I'm planning on doing something I feel strongly about. That only opens the plan up to be crapped on.

Anderson Cooper

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Sometimes you find something new, and you just say, 'Wow.'

Sonny Mehta

YouFindNewSometimesSayWow

If something gets too easy... I want to do something else. But every album is going to be me, no matter what.

Skrillex

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I think in 2012 one of the primary issues that will get a lot of discussion will be comprehensive tax reform.

Tom Reed

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I watch my wheat intake.

Molly Sims

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I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still me. It's a tricky thing to do.

Cher Lloyd

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You can try to be catchy without being slick, poppy without being pop, and you can be uplifting without being pompous. Because we're sometimes playing quieter stuff, it's hard to sound like we're trying to change things, but we wanted to be a reaction against soulless rubbish.

Chris Martin

ChangeTryingYouSometimesTry

I was very fortunate to be raised with an 'if not you, then who?' mentality, and I count my blessings every day to have the support of my family and especially my wife. She's got a front-row seat on the roller coaster.

Pete Ploszek

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I'd rather that people could be both entertained and given rest while reading my book than for someone to have to put the book down to take a rest. You can't just be lighting firecrackers all the time.

Sheila Heti

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I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life... and that's gotten stronger as I've gotten older. I've always felt if I don't just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to - work harder than anybody else.

Ryan Reynolds

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On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

Richard Branson

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