"I would like my personal reading map to……" — Nick Hornby
"I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900."
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212 Quotes by Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby has 212 quotes on this site.
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Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time…
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Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of…
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Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.
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[H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright…
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One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to…
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Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.
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I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.
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I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records…
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Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.
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Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point…
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I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from…
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It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we…
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More British Quotes
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London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything…
— David Attenborough
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
— Chinua Achebe
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For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.
— Gerry Adams
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I love British humor. It's just so - surreal.
— Beck
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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
— Tony Benn
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA,…
— Kate Adie
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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of…
— Sade Adu
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I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent…
— Orlando Bloom
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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain,…
— Bono
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We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be…
— Richard Branson
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We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and…
— Richard Branson
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The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is…
— Louise Brown
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