Kristian Nairn Quotes
I played with local bands and ended up touring with Scissor Sisters, Mylo, Alphabeat, and Calvin Harris. That somehow changed into DJ'ing.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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The Affordable Care Act has turned out to be anything but affordable.
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I grew up in what my mom will always dispute as 'the hood.' She just doesn't like the name. But it had its similarities to any neighborhood like that. The all-black neighbors and the all-black problems and the all-black happiness. And I really loved it.
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A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.
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I read Naomi Klein's 'No Logo' when I was 15. It's one of the things that's shaped my relationship to fame - to endorsements, to selling things.
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I played with local bands and ended up touring with Scissor Sisters, Mylo, Alphabeat, and Calvin Harris. That somehow changed into DJ'ing.
