Kate Grenville
Related HUSTON SMITH FRANK HERBERT HéLDER CâMARA CESAR CHAVEZ YO-YO MA KELLY MCCREARY PARIS JACKSON It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who yo... FRED FRITH Each song has its own secret that's different from another song, and each has its own life. Some... MARK KNOPFLER An actor is an impersonator; he plays many different roles. If you played the same role all the time... ROBERT LOGGIA It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never ... MAX VON SYDOW With a series, keeping the quality high and writing incredibly fast, that's the first lesson you... ALEX KURTZMAN The difference between 'Watchmen' and a normal comic book is this: With 'Batman's Go... ZACK SNYDER Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying t... ZEDD PAULO COELHO There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common... DANIEL EVERETT MARSHALL MCLUHAN DAVID CRYSTAL GAYLE FORMAN Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel... VINCE STAPLES I felt that a cappella was the improv world with music, where it's very serious, and there are g... KAY CANNON NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON BRIAN KERNIGHAN FRANTZ FANON JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI MICHELLE OBAMA Teaching a child to read, is like teaching someone a different language. You understand that they ar... TALK2YOURBABY Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a c... THOMAS ERNEST HULME Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of... C. K. WILLIAMS You have to have a little humility if you're Danish because you're never going to be able to... SIDSE BABETT KNUDSEN Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to co... YOLANDI VISSER You can be involved in media, and you can be involved in all the handbag hurling that goes along wit... KERRY STOKES NEIL GAIMAN FRANKLIN P. JONES PETER ZUMTHOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortun... ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU MARILYN HACKER JHUMPA LAHIRI Though the cards may look slightly different, and be in a totally different language, they function ... DAVID ONG KEN LIU ALFRED KORZYBSKI Every person has a different view of another person's image. That's all perception. The char... STEVE ALFORD FRANK HERBERT JOHN GEDDES PAULO COELHO Though we think, we speak using a different language, a language that we create using words. AUSTIN GLEN MILLER ALAN RICKMAN It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and ... ROMEO SANTOS DAVID MITCHELL JEAN BAUDRILLARD I don't think there's a single county agency that doesn't have something aimed at people who speak a... DONNA BIGLER DAVID NOVAK ILONA ANDREWS I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in wh... ALAN PATON TORI AMOS CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE GEORGE STEINER CLIFFORD STOLL You can hear everybody's style when we play. The band has its own sound. It's different from what's ... BO CARWILE Acting in another language is great, and I've done that. But you can't do it as well as you ... EMMANUELLE SEIGNER OCTAVIO PAZ I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that... GORE VERBINSKI It's a city of its own and has its own sound. I think what makes it different is the drama; you ... BILLY PAUL I failed world geography, civics, Spanish and English. And when you fail Spanish and English, they d... TIM SCOTT I like language. Every language has its own possibilities. BLAIR RUDES When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can un... LEA SALONGA When you're in your 20s, you're a little more carefree; you're single. You have a very d... MELISSA DE SOUSA BELLY BUTTONS & GRAVESTONES;
You leave behind the only world that you have ever known ...
And blindl... ED BULEY MINDY GROSSMAN RICHARD RORTY KILROY J. OLDSTER All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and lan... ABBAS KIAROSTAMI When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are. BRUNO TONIOLI ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY When you have a situation that's destructive, when there's tremendous inhumanity everywhere,... LESLIE COCKBURN SONAKSHI SINHA The most important element to jazz music is being able to improvise. You learn the language of the m... ERIC ESSEX Each outing is its own game. You roll on your game plan. It is a different chess match each time you... JASON HAMMEL ALICIA VIKANDER HIROMU ARAKAWA I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different ... KIERNAN SHIPKA JOHN MCENROE STEPHEN FRY You can have your own language. You can have your own dialect; you can have your own way of saying t... NICK EARLS SONIA SOTOMAYOR WALT DISNEY EDUARDO GALEANO It is frustrating to work with a language where all the speakers are very elderly. During the time I... ANDREW GARRETT Laugh and the world laughs with you, be prompt and you dine alone. For the sad old earth must borrow... GERALD BARZAN CIARA MICHAEL FRANTI MARTIN AMIS GORDON B. HINCKLEY Each script has its own calligraphic and cultural history. It is more a question of matching differe... BRUNO MAAG JACK KORNFIELD DAVID SOUTER TORI AMOS Shakespeare is absolutely big in Africa. I guess he's big everywhere. Growing up, Shakespeare wa... ISHMAEL BEAH
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Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something ... KATE GRENVILLE I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can opera... KATE GRENVILLE I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that thi... KATE GRENVILLE I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can el... KATE GRENVILLE I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave ... KATE GRENVILLE Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and t... KATE GRENVILLE 'The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about... KATE GRENVILLE I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there&... KATE GRENVILLE I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing. KATE GRENVILLE For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I&#... KATE GRENVILLE A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment.... KATE GRENVILLE One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've expe... KATE GRENVILLE I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me t... KATE GRENVILLE When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental thing... KATE GRENVILLE Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback... KATE GRENVILLE He had seen God in the night sky long before he understood its patterns. KATE GRENVILLE Until you could put yourself at some point beyond your own world, looking back at it, you would neve... KATE GRENVILLE What he had not learned from Latin or Greek he was learning from the people of New South Wales. It w... KATE GRENVILLE Man had been given a brain that could think in numbers, and it could not be coincidence that the wor... KATE GRENVILLE it crossed Farren's mind that although death seemed big, life was even bigger KATE GRENVILLE GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER I am shocked frankly that it is high as 13 percent in the US, because the US is one of the most reli... ANDREW GRENVILLE There is a thriving privatized faith. ANDREW GRENVILLE A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is... GEORGE GRENVILLE A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity. GEORGE GRENVILLE GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER I'm just putting the puck on net, and I'm getting dirty goals. I'm not trying to get a pretty goal. ... CHRIS GRENVILLE GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER Confusion is a continuous fight with self-knowledge, prejudice and insecurity. KATE I have an insane calling to be where i'm not, and a screaming urge to get out of here. There's no ro... KATE That feeling of shame and guilt you feel, when you disappoint someone, equals the feeling of never b... KATE If you are wondering why some people don't want to talk to you anymore, it could be that they actual... KATE Amazing how you can fake you're way through the day, by looking at the clock, and work untill it's t... KATE The people who never wanted to meet you, will never know what you would have sounded like together! KATE More then a thousand words written, but no notes to make a song.
It shouldn't be this hard, and it s... KATE Let's just lay in the grass, and look at the stars, and fall asleep in the middle of counting. KATE Better focus on what seems to be more important, then what make's me feel more alive...
But the thou... KATE Why do people get back in the box ?,
when deep down inside there isn't room enough.
And even though ... KATE Reading between the lines is supposed to lift you up, except when the message reminds you of the mis... KATE Tic tac, tic tac.
Three o clock, it's time to stop,
Thinking about what is not.
Tic tac, tic tac
May... KATE Being confused about you're own insecurity's, when other people turn out to be not what they seem, a... KATE Those little boxes people put you in, while they should try the other sizes... KATE Sometimes I forget how it feels to meet new people who are passionate about the same things.
But whe... KATE Glistening grains of sand, so soft and warm
being sleepless in the desert has it's charm.
A billion ... KATE Is it okay to lose you'reself once in a while.....
Maybe I am lost longer then I think.... KATE They won't chase me wen I walk away. Not worth chasing I gues,... so I'll just keep on walking alone... KATE No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.......
Now I know what I did wrong all the ti... KATE Don't approach someone with false intensions, especcialy when they are not good enough. Because ther... KATE My sore throath can't find my voice anywere, and my thought's can't find my sleep. KATE Time is precious....I would love to spend a day how I really want to spend it...or maybe a few.. KATE Back to the corner where you came from, and dim that little light, before it finally discover's how ... KATE I tried to stop the morning coming in so fast
Why is it impossible to make those silent moments last... KATE I need a whiskey (or 2) , a party, and some fun,
but it looks like I have to settle for less again. KATE You can listen to a song a thousand times, and then, suddenly, the lyrics kick in,.... like someone ... KATE If water would be running up,
would it wash away the spots,
underneath the places, where we usually ... KATE No one knows that a simple and calculated decision for the one with potential, is the final end of t... KATE LAUREN KATE KATE MIDDLETON KATE FORSYTH KATE MOSS KATE MIDDLETON KATE MIDDLETON KATE KLISE Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doi... KATE ATKINSON KATE CHOPIN KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, ho... KATE WILLIAMS People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureh... KATE WILLIAMS When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box... KATE WILLIAMS I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors. KATE WILLIAMS One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think... KATE WILLIAMS I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it'... KATE WILLIAMS Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for the... KATE WILLIAMS I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women... KATE WILLIAMS The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and fri... KATE WILLIAMS Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history... KATE WILLIAMS I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting his... KATE WILLIAMS Precise historical reasons are difficult to pinpoint, but red hair, it seems, bestows a sense of oth... KATE WILLIAMS The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to t... KATE WILLIAMS Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and pa... KATE WILLIAMS I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems tha... KATE WILLIAMS Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth a... KATE WILLIAMS Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in pow... KATE WILLIAMS I like boxes because of the secrets they hide. KATE WILLIAMS The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or ... KATE WILLIAMS I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016... KATE WILLIAMS Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 m... KATE WILLIAMS Acting was all I ever really wanted to do. KATE WALSH For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, ... KATE WALSH Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if ... KATE WALSH I struggle with control. KATE WALSH I loved campaigning for Obama. KATE WALSH My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back. KATE WALSH I still like to make crank calls. KATE WALSH I would definitely love to be a parent. KATE WALSH No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' g... KATE WALSH There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture. KATE WALSH I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess. KATE WALSH I've done every diet there is. KATE WALSH Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes. KATE WALSH I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try! KATE WALSH You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you. KATE WALSH I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast canc... KATE WALSH I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead. KATE WALSH I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes. KATE WALSH I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day. KATE WALSH People always say you can't do a red lip if you have red hair but I've never shied away from... KATE WALSH I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice. KATE WALSH I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine. KATE WALSH I drink tons of water. When you're puffy, you think you can't drink water since you feel mor... KATE WALSH I've got four roommates and they all have fur and tails. KATE WALSH I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of... KATE VOEGELE I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations.... KATE VOEGELE I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celeb... KATE VOEGELE I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete. KATE VOEGELE My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these song... KATE VOEGELE More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like i... KATE VOEGELE I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now ... KATE VOEGELE Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences ... 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KATE CLINTON We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere. KATE CLINTON I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want... KATE CLINTON I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think i... KATE CLINTON As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential r... KATE CLINTON Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a le... KATE CLINTON When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out. KATE CLINTON I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times ... KATE CLINTON A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said,... KATE CLINTON Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one. 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God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. Y... 
A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language y... 
Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men ... 
Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and ... 
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Acting is a job you can learn a lot in. You get to play lots of different characters with different ... 
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You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brin... 
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call thems... 
When we look at the specific effect of the Internet on language, languages asking the question, '... 
We like movies and books that give us this emotionally moving experience, where you feel like a slig... 
Scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different jou... 
Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's... 
To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture. 
The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak. 
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Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've vis... 
It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. 
In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the w... 
When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world... 
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. 
Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language ... 
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My metaphor for translation has always been that translation is really a performance art. You take t... 
Moreover, every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own str... 
A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract th... 
...language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language ... 
You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brin... 
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Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just a... 
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If human language, with its logic, is the way God has given us to understand the world, then the Tor... 
Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.
A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do... 
To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontie... 
Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence. 
While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling... 
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The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a langua... 
Language is the gateway of the mind and a bridge that connects us to other human beings. Language en... 
You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with differ... 
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People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked
while others have idled, have... 
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Be fearless. Be glib. Be enigmatic. Read. Never give up. 
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I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister. 
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So the storm passed and every one was happy. 
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I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman. 
I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults. 
I hate to cook and love to eat. 
I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern. 
I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry. 
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Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, lik... 