Nick Harkaway Quotes
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I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
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One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
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If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it's worth every penny.
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It's weird, but I don't feel like think I deserve any of the attention. There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?
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Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.
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My father left me with his love of Jewish studies and cultural life. To this very day, along with several physicians and scientist colleagues, I take regular periodical lessons taught by a Rabbinical scholar on how the Jewish law views moral and ethical problems related to modern medicine and science.
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I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.
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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
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There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.
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I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.'
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It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.
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The American family will fear less, our national security will be more assured, and we won‘t let the Venezuelas or Nigerias or the Saudi Arabias or the Irans jerk us around by the gas nozzle the way they are doing it now.
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How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person on the other end shouts back 'What?'
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Men frequently think that the evils in the world are more numerous than the good things; many sayings and songs of the nations dwell on this idea. ...Not only common people make this mistake, but even many who think they are wise.
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We are all made of air There's stars in my eyes and there's sun in my hair And I'm runnin' away, it makes me feel better
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Young people, especially, are looking for religion so desperately that they are inventing new ones. They should not have to invent new ones; the old religions are pretty good.
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None of this 'there is no way to continue' bullshit. Because it is pure and utter SHIT.
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One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.
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I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying".
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So I did 'Something Happened on the Way to Heaven' and the original version is a ballad. The original Phil record is uptempo but we slowed it down and made it a ballad.
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Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.
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I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.
