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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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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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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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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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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The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.
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Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to see, and they are not really transforming in terms of their character.
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I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'
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While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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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.
