James Nicoll Quotes
Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.James Nicoll
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I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
Barry Corbin -
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
Ed Koch -
I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
Ted Turner -
I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
Rachel Gibson -
To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
Daisy Fuentes
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
Warren Buffett -
Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
Sally Pearson -
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
Finley Peter Dunne -
There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
Ferran Adria -
The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
Maeve Binchy -
I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
Yoko Ono
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
Nancy Reagan -
Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
Octavio Paz -
At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
Patrick Lencioni -
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
Tanith Lee -
Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz -
I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences are the carriers of plot. They're the conjurers of images, the conveyors of tone and meaning and voice. The best sentences surprise us.
Karen Thompson Walker -
I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already.
Marianne Faithfull -
I've always been the type of person to make everybody happy and get things done. I want everything to be 100% perfect.
Nicki Minaj -
There have been many very successful acquirers, where they've bought up companies, and they've grown their earnings very rapidly, and the stock has appreciated tremendously.
John Paulson -
I was always made to work at a very early age. I finished school at 4 P.M. and by 5 P.M. I was working. It was seven days a week.
Albert Gubay -
Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.
James Nicoll