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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Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.
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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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Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians consciously characterize their efforts. It is only intended to be positive - i.e., 'Our messaging is designed to show we care.'
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Many of us refuse to grow where we are put; consequently, we take root nowhere.
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I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.
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I am a firm believer in praxis, and I don’t have much time for the idea of the loner of genius who does everything all by himself. You need other people as well, at every level.
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A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.
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When you are a novelist, you are used to making a narrative do what you want.
