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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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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I don't worry about whether I'm making a masterpiece, because I know that if you get just one of those in a lifetime, you should get down on your knees and say 'Thank you!'
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.
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American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work; obviously, in the case of 'The Office,' it did. But a lot of times, it doesn't really work.
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From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.
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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.
