Naomi Novik Quotes
It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.
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When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
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I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.
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I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.
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You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
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When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
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I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut.
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A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.
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I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't think it's a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I'm happy with it.
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Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
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An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.
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(Econometrics is) the unification of economic theory, statistics and mathematics.
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In my books, there is no 'ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan' syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn't a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that's why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!
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I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.
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My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
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My music was made with everyone in mind with no prejudice towards anyone.
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Any promising young white man rich enough to theoretically afford a giant oil painting of himself gets to remain young and innocent forever, and none of his actions have any consequences, whether there is magic involved or not.
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It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.
