Garry Disher Quotes

At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.

Garry Disher

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GoodMyselfLookingAwardFind

The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt.

Robert Lopez

CreativeStartFrustrationProcess

Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.

John Warner

FreedomWarEffortWorldAmerica

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

John Steinbeck

LiveDeathMeWorldActionThought

You walk into any supermarket or any shopping mall and ask the public what they are worried about. Not one of them will tell you they are worried about 12 years of Mitt Romney's tax returns.

John Sununu

WalkShoppingYouTaxWillAsk

Artists need support, time and money to develop their ideas, and if people rip stuff off, you don't have to be that brilliant to figure out that you're ultimately going to affect the end product.

John Polson

TimeMoneySupportPeopleIdeasEnd

This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music.

Michael Tippett

MusicYouKindSpecialSomething

I tend to not think about the kind of movie things I want to be doing, because I've worked in all sorts of different places, and I've spent all sorts of time in England, and I'd still do things in Australia and in America.

Miranda Otto

TimeThinkAmericaDoingAustralia

As a little girl, I had huge fantasies about music.

Lou Doillon

MusicGirlLittleAboutHadHuge

I think I'm the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob Dylans.

Loudon Wainwright III

ThinkNewFirstI ThinkAroundBob

I have had big relationships. Three times in my life I have felt a special connection, but people talk about looking for love as if it's just like walking into a Starbucks and buying a coffee when you feel like it. It's rare, that special connection.

Cherie Lunghi

LifeLoveCoffeePeopleLookingYou

I think every player should think that he's a difference maker.

Brett Favre

ThinkDifferencePlayerHeI Think

This recession is the deepest in our lifetimes, the deepest since 1929. If you take the people thrown out of work in the 1982 recession, the 1991 recession, the 2001 recession, not only is this bigger, this is bigger than all of those combined.

Austan Goolsbee

WorkPeopleYouDeepestOutBigger

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