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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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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My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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God far exceeds all words that we can here express In silence He is heard, in silence worshiped best
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I grew up in what my mom will always dispute as 'the hood.' She just doesn't like the name. But it had its similarities to any neighborhood like that. The all-black neighbors and the all-black problems and the all-black happiness. And I really loved it.
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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.
