Nick Hornby (Nicholas Peter John Hornby) Quotes
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
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I used to wear sleeveless T-shirts all the time on court, but now I've got a brand new look - I've moved on to polo shirts. Sleeveless T-shirts give you real freedom of movement and they keep you cooler in matches, but I just thought it was time for a change.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
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I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
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I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
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I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.
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It's great fun to play with a really good band.
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In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at the students' union in early 1999, when I was 21. It's 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War.
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The Disney deal for us, we are very excited to be their Pay 1 partner, where we are a big licensing partner of Disney all over the world in all different windows.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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I think that the character that I'm playing now is so fundamentally different than Ally that I haven't I haven't felt like I had to worry about it at all. But I definitely wanted to make a different choice.
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I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.
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Everything fails, all the time.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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...self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.
