Nick Cummins (Nicholas Mark Cummins) Quotes
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.
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The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.
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Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.
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I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.
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Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.
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Here, we have female directors and producers; in fact, one whole channel is run by a woman. Pakistani TV is progressive, and hence, characters that are shown are of today as well.
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One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.
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The best thing about this band is I'm the leader!
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My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98 per cent with a chimpanzee. Banana's don't do psychological consistency. And the tiny part of us that's different - the special Homo sapiens bit - is faulty. It doesn't work. Sorry about that.
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You never say never. There's always a chance to do things in the future.
