Nick Hornby (Nicholas Peter John Hornby) Quotes
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I'm a blogger. It flowed very naturally out of me, but I also knew this was a way to set my recipes apart. A, they are always using interesting ingredients but B, there is always a story behind it.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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If I'm not doing anything, I get really antsy and bored.
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When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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I never forbid myself anything.
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I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.
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I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.
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We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet have an audience for what we do.
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No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.
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Avant-garde artistes such as respondents remain entirely free to épater les bourgeois shock the middle classes; they are merely deprived of the additional satisfaction of having the bourgeoisie taxed to pay for it. It is preposterous to equate the denial of taxpayer subsidy with measures 'aimed at the suppression of dangerous ideas.'
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I crossed the tracks and sought out White prey. I did this consciously, deliberately, willfully, methodically ... Rape was an insurrectionary act. It delighted me that I was defying and trampling upon the White man's law ... and that I was defiling his women ...
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But - drive out prejudice with a pitch-fork it will ever return.
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Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.
