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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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 two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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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'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.
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The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this earth. It's not going be, "It was a great platform. It was great to win the Super Bowl." But, really and truly what you're going to leave this earth is the influence on others.
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We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.
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You can parody almost anything.
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As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.
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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.
