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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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 am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
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Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
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When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under apartheid - I arrived there in 1991 - but here a black person had more say and had more influence over his white government than an average Kenyan had over the Moi government.
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I've reached a point in England where you can't go much further; I would love to come to America and work with some of the interesting directors here.
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The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.
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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.'
