Nick Hornby (Nicholas Peter John Hornby) Quotes
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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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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There's a reason people use CGI: it's cheaper and faster. I hate that.
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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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Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.
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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 believe the climate is changing.
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War should be not a war of choice; it should be a war of necessity. And it should be a last resort.
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When you're playing, every ball seems like the biggest event. When you're sitting back, you can see the overall picture better.
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I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.
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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
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...self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.
