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I'd say I got into Marvin Gay...

I'd say I got into Marvin Gaye properly in college.

Nick Hornby 236 quotes

I think the things that are m...

I think the things that are most intimate are nameless and shapeless.

Nick Hornby 236 quotes

If adults are not enjoying so...

If adults are not enjoying something they're doing in their leisure time, they should stop doing it.

Nick Hornby 236 quotes

Every time we pick up a book ...

Every time we pick up a book from a sense of duty and we find that we're struggling to get through it, we reinforce the notion that reading is something we should do, but telly is something that we want to do.

Nick Hornby 236 quotes

I hated teaching Shakespeare....

I hated teaching Shakespeare. In order for the students to understand what was going on, you had to tell them the story of 'Macbeth' or whatever. Shakespeare is about character and language, and they didn't get any of that.

Nick Hornby 236 quotes

The Oscars are like a politic...

The Oscars are like a political campaign. You have to have the right candidates, and the people in Hollywood know what they are.

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I only read the very best mus...

I only read the very best music books. Donald Fagan's memoir 'Eminent Hipsters' is great. Bob Dylan's memoir 'Chronicles' and Patty Smith's 'Just Kids' are both incredible.

Nick Hornby 236 quotes

I like writing about popular ...

I like writing about popular culture. It helps to place people. I think you can be really, really accurate if you know enough about it, and place people precisely.

Nick Hornby 236 quotes

I always naturally want to ch...

I always naturally want to change things up if I possibly can. I never want to write a sequel to a book. I don't want to go back over things. I don't want to adapt my own books for the screen. That's something that's important to me, the keeping it fresh.

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I can remember my father gave...

I can remember my father gave me a huge history of football for my 12th birthday - I used to read that a lot. I can remember thinking it was cool that something I was interested in even had a history. Most things I loved didn't.

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It's a great relief that you'...

It's a great relief that you're not as bad a parent as you thought you were.

Nick Hornby 236 quotes

I think quite a misguided lit...

I think quite a misguided literary culture has grown up in the 20th century that says a book has to have a seriousness of purpose and a seriousness of language.

Nick Hornby 236 quotes

The best bit of novel writing...

The best bit of novel writing is being allowed to write exactly what you want at the speed that you want, and to include as many different people and places and times as you want, working with pretty much only one person, the editor, whose job it is to get it in good shape for publication.

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At a crude estimate, I must h...

At a crude estimate, I must have played 'Thunder Road' 1,500 times.

Nick Hornby 236 quotes

I think it does everybody a l...

I think it does everybody a lot of good to have a period of no success.

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[H]ow was I supposed to get ex...

[H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright during the final minutes of a desperately close promotion campaign?

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No time spent with a book is e...

No time spent with a book is ever entirely wasted, even if the experience is not a happy one: there's always something to be learned. It's just that, every now and again, you can hit a patch of reading that makes you feel as if you're pootling about. [...] But what can you do about it? We don't choose to waste our reading time; it just happens. The books let us down.

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Where's the superficial? I wa...

Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't flesh wounds. These are life-threatening thrusts into the internal organs.

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It is a strange paradox that w...

It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have an individual relationship with our clubs, and I think that we are secretly convinced that none of the other fans understands quite why we have been harder hit than anyone else - we are forced to mourn in public, surrounded by people whose hurt is expressed in forms different from our own.

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What went wrong? Nothing and e...

What went wrong? Nothing and everything.

Nick Hornby 236 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....