Naomi Novik Quotes
I ended up rooming in a dorm that was basically a solid wall of female scientists. And every Wednesday, we would all watch "Star Trek: Next Generation."
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The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.
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Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.
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I often don't read reviews.
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You could tell that America was gearing up for war.
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I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
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I suffer a little bit from Napoleonism, if you will.
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When you're on Earth, if you go to the top of a mountain, the stars look much brighter than they do at sea level. And because the space shuttle is above Earth's atmosphere, it's like being on a very, very high mountain. So they look brighter, but not bigger.
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Well, we knocked the bastard off!
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Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
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I live by the 80-20 rule: 80 percent of the time, you eat really healthy, and 20 percent, you treat yourself.
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I wished I could go back to Atletico; I'm not going to lie.
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I don't pay attention to negative stuff.
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The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
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I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.
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Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.
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Growing up in an Ethiopian household allowed me to feel like I had an audience before I had an audience.
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The moment you think about an act in terms of how, you are already halfway to doing it.
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I hated speaking in public. I would miss school just so I wouldn't have to do it.
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Bumble gives men a chance to take a step back and not be the macho aggressor that they may not want to be but were socialized to be. We think it makes for a better and more peaceful environment for everyone.
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Science does not permit exceptions.
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I ended up rooming in a dorm that was basically a solid wall of female scientists. And every Wednesday, we would all watch "Star Trek: Next Generation."
