John Niven Quotes
I spend a fair bit of time in Los Angeles, and there is much I love about the place - the weather, the food, the beaches and the golf. And a few things I don't. Like the way an enormous number of mentally ill people seem to be forced to live on the streets with little or nothing in the way of government assistance.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him.
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I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs, cats, lizards and wildlife. I've worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes!
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I worked at Starbucks when I was 16... It was all right.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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Failure is success in progress.
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I spend a fair bit of time in Los Angeles, and there is much I love about the place - the weather, the food, the beaches and the golf. And a few things I don't. Like the way an enormous number of mentally ill people seem to be forced to live on the streets with little or nothing in the way of government assistance.
