John Niven Quotes

I love being a writer. I have a great life. I get up in the morning and pad around in my dressing gown and listen to Radio 4.

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• I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Boy
  • Delhi
  • Bengali

• It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Trying
  • Play

• Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Important
  • Job
  • Wealth

• I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Real
  • Want
  • Celebrity

• My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • She
  • Bad
  • Mom

• If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Patience
  • Grow
  • Beard

• Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Wisdom

• President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Government
  • Promise

• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Day

• When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Time
  • Character
  • You

• My instinct is to be very controlling.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Very
  • Instinct
  • Controlling

• Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Heart
  • Doubt
  • Paris

• I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Love
  • Fun
  • House

• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Morning
  • Like
  • Idea

• Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Heart
  • Beauty
  • Beholder

• I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Mother

• The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Time
  • Man
  • Pain

• The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Home
  • Play
  • Piano

• To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them.

  

  Mark Lazarevich Levi
  • Good
  • Done

• In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• You can do good work simply staying up all night and eating nothing but junk food, but probably not in the long term.

  

  John Mulaney
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• That's the fun part about being a director. You get to say, 'Oh, now that I'm in charge, I can try and cast whoever I want.' They can always say no, but that's okay.

  

  Drew Goddard
  • Fun

• I love being a writer. I have a great life. I get up in the morning and pad around in my dressing gown and listen to Radio 4.

  

  John Niven
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