Naomi Novik Quotes
And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.
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My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.
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Talking to my mental coach definitely helps. I talk to her every week. Yeah, I mean, she's been helping me a lot, too.
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I like to be loved or hated – I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
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I am a capitalist and I believe in making a profit.
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I don't have the confidence to be a personality.
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I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.
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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
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I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.
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I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.'
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Literary scholars end up being some kind of storyteller, too.
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A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.
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We have forgotten that before we began calling this date rape and date fraud, we called it exciting.
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Patient zero feels great and is back to work.
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I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want.
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I did interviews with most of the TechCrunch50 experts backstage and there was a common gripe about the companies launching there: Not enough passion, not enough swinging for the fences, not enough trying to change the world... One big exception was CitySourced - a company that excited Kevin Rose precisely because it was trying to build something that doesn't really exist today and would make a huge difference in people's lives. It was the most excited I saw an expert about anything over the two-day event.
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We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.
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To stick to the present situation would be something like a man who was observed in Times Square looking earnestly along the pavement. He was asked what he was looking for. He said "I lost my watch."
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And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.
