Kristian Nairn Quotes
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
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I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.
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I'm going to try to do music for the rest of my life, but that's just trying. Maybe it's not going to work out. Who knows?
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.
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I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.
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Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.
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I'm totally myself.
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I am a Gemini and can adapt to most atmospheres. You get two for the price of one when you are a Gemini.
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I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.
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When you're writing historical fiction, you have to think a little farther into the situation: what the average social interactions were, what was acceptable behavior. What did people think was fun, what did they find unhappy, and why?
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I just want to sleep, and eat, and learn about what's going on in the world.
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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
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Strategy is about stretching limited resources to fit ambitious aspirations.
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When I was a kid, I was obsessed with Thor. I had a hammer.
