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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I don't even know how people read new fiction anymore because there's so much old fiction that exists that seems great that's unread. It's overwhelming to me. But, I mean, I do read. But there probably haven't been many people less literate than me that have been in 'The Paris Review.'
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When I was little, people would ask what my favorite color was, and I never knew. I find it's really hard to make decisive 'best' answers on what the 'best' of something is.
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I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.
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A man being sued after a woman has more sex than intended is like Lay’s being sued after someone has more potato chips than intended. In brief, date rape can be a crime, a misunderstanding, or buyer’s remorse.
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The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.
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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.
