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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When a crowd rushes into your house without declaring its intention, it is, by definition, an invasion.
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It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
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I was going to college to be a doctor.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.
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I didn't have many friends; I might not have had any friends. But it all turned out good in the end, because when you aren't popular and you don't have a social life, it gives you more time to focus on your future.
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I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.
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She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say.
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The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.
