John Niven Quotes
I have to confess to not being a great forward planner. I'm the kind of person who regularly arranges to have dinner with five different people on the same night.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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I find the business world hard.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
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Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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In totality, I take care not be a bad influence on youngsters.
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Why thrust your kid into that? You try to protect them from all the bad people out there.
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In-depth learning means learning as much about a topic as possible – learning for the sake of knowledge and understanding itself as opposed to learning for the sake of passing a test with high grades or trying to impress people.
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You cannot play with fire.
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Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent Other, that beckons us out of history, and says, you know: 'The galaxy lies waiting.'
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I have to confess to not being a great forward planner. I'm the kind of person who regularly arranges to have dinner with five different people on the same night.
