Beverley Nichols Quotes
A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think blockchain can disrupt. We picked six of them to focus on.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.
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I don't think of myself as a dissident, and I'm more of an immigrant than an exile.
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One of the reasons they [the Japanese] have bad eyesight is probably these microscopic characters [furigana] which have many lines and strokes to them.& We wonder why they went mad and bombed Pearl Harbor when they knew they couldn't win. That [the Japanese language] would be a reason.
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I think that the success of the film is as much about it being something that families could share as anything else.
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I want people to look at a checkerboard and think of me!
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It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.
