Nick Hornby (Nicholas Peter John Hornby) Quotes
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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Listen, we're still selling stardom. That doesn't go away because MTV decides they can't play videos or they want to program themselves more as a traditional T.V. station. Vevo and YouTube are like MTV online, and on demand.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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I don't put on makeup when I'm getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?
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Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
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When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
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How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
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Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.
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I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.
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I'm a country girl at heart.
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You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.
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Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.
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Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
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I hear so many startups talking about how they can raise VC instead of questioning whether they need it in the first place.
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We need preachers. We need men who believe that this task and women who believe that this task is so great that not all the strategies in the world can make one soul converted.
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Even when people are rich and successful on TV shows, there's always some trouble - you have to poke holes in them, throw them out of a job, put a pie in the face.
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Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.
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One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.
