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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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.
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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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Silicon Valley has infinite access to capital and can lose money indefinitely.
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In my state [ Maryland] we've lost jobs to NAFTA, we did not gain jobs from NAFTA. But I think it's very difficult when your state is right up against the northern border, you do see things differently.
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I keep lip gloss everywhere. It always makes me feel like I am slightly put together.
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The worst thing that you can do in terms of bringing a product up to the market is to be two days after someone else has brought a similar product to the international market-It's dead.
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
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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.