John Niven Quotes
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
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When I first lived in a model apartment... It was two bunk beds to a room, and the bathroom was constantly in use. I was bringing in Lucky Charms cereal, and one day an agent put a stop to that. She said, 'You're making all the girls fat.' They took it off our grocery order. That was the most dramatic thing that happened.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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My partner has to have good sized bones.
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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We know that the hardest work is to keep yourself open to the world that technology hasn't tamed.
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The Mayo Clinic is one of the largest and most experienced medical centers treating esophageal cancer in the world.
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Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
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I can count on one hand how many people I trust.
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Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.
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I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing.
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I find it slightly uncomfortable to see my face on a bus or a poster. I like just being known by my friends and family.
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I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.
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Honour both spirit and form, the sentiment within as well as the symbol without.
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It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
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Well, this man the T.V. interviewer of Jasper Johns, wanted to know why I stopped painting the so-called famous 'Silence of Duchamp'.. ..and he had said it was because of dealers and money and various reasons. Largely moralistic reasons.. ..But you know; it wasn’t like that. It’s like you break a leg; you don't mean to do it.
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No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
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I think a good relationship that Mexico could maintain with the United States and vice versa should be based on trust, on opening - openness and constant dialogue that would allow us essentially to define, share objectives and to work towards those so as to avoid activities which are not known to the other government.
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If revenge is a dish best served cold, confession should be dished up piping hot or not at all.
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Whether or not Big Brother is watching us, we certainly have to watch him, which may be even worse.
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When you are a novelist, you are used to making a narrative do what you want.
