David Novak Quotes

The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.

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• It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don't become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it's set will become a burden.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • People
  • World
  • Action

• I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.

  

  Iman
  • Women
  • Black
  • Beauty

• I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Money
  • Mother
  • Parents

• One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • America
  • Want

• I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Best
  • Dance
  • Born

• Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • You
  • Better
  • Writer

• In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Moral
  • Thought

• To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Great
  • Hands

• I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.

  

  Rachel Cohn
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  • Feel
  • Darkness

• Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Changes
  • Emotions
  • Colors

• I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
  • Day
  • Research

• How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Look

• The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
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  • Gift
  • Creator

• I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Art
  • Job
  • Respect

• When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • House
  • Without
  • Intention

• I feel like any time you, as an actor, can be surrounded by other amazing actors, you can't do anything but grow.

  

  Kristen Renton
  • Time
  • Amazing

• Not everyone relates to being a blond girl with blue eyes and is proportioned so she could barely walk if she was a real person.

  

  Barbie Ferreira
  • Real
  • She
  • Girl

• I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Wife
  • Crazy
  • Farmer

• The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Truth
  • War

• The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.

  

  David Novak
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