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Diana Wynne Jones

"It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"The lucky person passes for a genius."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Ah, Senor Zhang," Leo said, "you know how you're always saying, 'Leo, you are the only true genius among demigods'?""I'm pretty sure I never said that."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius."

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Diana Wynne Jones
"I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we."

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Diana Wynne Jones
"I think one of things is that all fantasy it seems to me works the way your brain basically works. This is perhaps a startling concept, but I think it's true."

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Diana Wynne Jones
"It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that."

Genius

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Diana Wynne Jones
"I find it just simply takes me right back to those times, and I really can't take it, I don't want to, I mean, why should I face up to it? What good does it do me? I know it happened, and that's it."

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Diana Wynne Jones
"Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now."

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Diana Wynne Jones
"And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere."

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Diana Wynne Jones
"I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this."

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Diana Wynne Jones
"Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about."

Home

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Diana Wynne Jones
"This does make me very very careful, particularly in the second draft, to get it right, because you do feel that somebody in the future who may be extremely important for everybody, is going to have me behind them, and this is a responsibility, a huge one."

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Diana Wynne Jones
"This is ridiculous, I mean, wholly ridiculous. It never did any child any harm to have something that was a tiny bit above them anyway, and I claim that anyone who can follow Doctor Who can follow absolutely anything."

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