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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I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.
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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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But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.
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When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.
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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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Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.
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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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Things have to be funny first, and if they want to have a point, that's awesome.
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I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music.
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Maybe Donald Trump doesn't want the American people to know that he's paid nothing in federal taxes, because the only years that anybody's ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license, and they showed he didn't pay any federal income tax.
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I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in.
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At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers' gain.
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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."
