Garry Disher Quotes

Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

Garry Disher

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America's greatness has always been demonstrated by our moral leadership.

John Hickenlooper

LeadershipGreatnessAmericaMoral

My experience with record labels throughout my career has generally fallen into wishing I could do things that they're not built to do, whether it be arguing about having a nicer package - because I do believe some people care about that - to trying to always bank on art-versus-the-easy-commerce route; there's always been headbutting involved.

Trent Reznor

ExperiencePeopleBelieveCareBank

'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.

Rob Sheffield

LifeActionGangsterBackFindFade

There is no denying that the English league is perfect for me, but there are nice clubs elsewhere, too.

Romelu Lukaku

MePerfectNiceEnglishTooLeague

There's a whole generation of women who never really heard the word investment before, when it came to fashion. They've been buying things because they were cheap.

Michael Kors

WomenFashionGenerationInvestment

President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise... is to help you and your family.

Mitt Romney

FamilySlowHelpYouRisePresident

I was done with my second major label deal, and I was doing a lot of urban sessions, and I had an acoustic itch. And you know, I picked up a ukulele. I always wanted one. And it just resonated with me. I would wake up with this uke in my hand. For me the ukulele just opened this door in my heart.

LP

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When I met people they said, 'You do look like a hobo, but you smell really good.'

Johnny Depp

GoodPeopleYouLookSaidSmell

I think it's wonderful that people in pickup trucks are buying two flats of dog food and a copy of 'Bastard.' I want my view of the world to be right up there next to gallon boxes of Tide.

Dorothy Allison

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I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.

Bobby Womack

HeartSingingPlayWillSpiritOpen

If I am happy in my personal life, I will be happy in my profession.

Antoine Griezmann

LifeI AmHappyBe HappyI Am Happy

I grew up under the politics of my size and my skin. I grew up under the politics of the sound of my voice and a lack of agency, or a feeling of a lack of agency, and not always being able to find myself in images that were in the media.

Winston Duke

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