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.
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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.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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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.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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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.
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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.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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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.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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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.
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For me, I just set little goals for myself and stay on that kind of track and surround myself with positive people along with my teammates. I just kind of have my goals and my dreams, and this is something that we've all been working for our entire lives, so it is kind of easy to wake up and want to better myself every day towards that goal.
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Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
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To me, everything is connected. We're a part of nature. We are organic beings. None of us were - all of us come out of a woman. That's the way we're growing.
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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I like the work. If I upped the price, I wouldn't get the work.
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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.
