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.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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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.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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My instinct is to be very controlling.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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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.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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.'
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.
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I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.
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The acting served as an outlet for my emotions for some time because I was doing it under the guise of someone else. And that can only be therapeutic up to a point until you truly deal with it and can express it to someone directly. Acting was a helpful outlet for me as a child. In some ways, I can say it saved my life.
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John Edgar Park introduced me to the gentle art of recreational lock-picking. It's fun and potentially useful to know how to tickle tumblers in the right way to open door locks and padlocks.
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I always got my work done before playing.
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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.
