John Niven Quotes
I use computers and the Internet every day of my life, and yet I have absolutely no idea how they work. I'm like a labrador watching 'The Matrix.'
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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I get homesick.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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I love my shape because I work really hard at it. I honor my body by working out and seeing what it can do.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.
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I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
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Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different.
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I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
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Obama’s NASA budget perfectly captures the difference between Kennedy's liberalism and Obama's. Kennedy's was an expansive, bold, outward-looking summons, Obama's is a constricted inward-looking call to retreat. Fifty years ago, Kennedy opened the New Frontier. Obama has just shut it.
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Lord, if Thou knowest that I shall find, on leaving the house, even through obedience, an occasion of offending Thee, I conjure Thee to take away my life here, where Thou are really present, for Thou solely art my life, and I prefer a thousand deaths to causing Thee the slightest displeasure.
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I use computers and the Internet every day of my life, and yet I have absolutely no idea how they work. I'm like a labrador watching 'The Matrix.'
