Nicola Cornick Quotes
I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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Let me tell you that I love the United States.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
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I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.
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My family is basically Gypsies - for real.
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Whether you watch 'Law and Order' all the time or not, everyone knows what it looks like. Everyone knows what the courtroom looks like, what the police precinct looks like.
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I just love to see people having a good time.
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You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
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All of the clean technologies are known, it's a question of simply applying them.
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Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God.
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But in order for anyone to become successful, sometimes you have to be that driven and focused, and maybe there isn't a lot left over for personal relationships - although I certainly have had them. It's not as if I cut myself off, but it makes them very difficult. This profession is very hard on relationships.
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'Sag Harbor' brought me a new readership - it's a coming of age tale about growing up in the '80s.
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Hills are speedwork in disguise.
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My wife and I have a schizophrenic son. We didn't want to accept this for 30 years, so we put him under great pressure when we shouldn't have. He just wanted to be looked after, and we didn't respect that. We tried to make him independent.
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The hardest thing for me was leaving my friends and family behind.
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I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.
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I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
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We’ve got to do something about these Asians coming in, opening up businesses, those dirty shops. They ought to go. I’ll just say that right now, you know. But we need African American businesspeople to be able to take their places, too.
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I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.
