Naomi Novik Quotes
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I wanted to go to college and play football.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.
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I find that I can't work and listen to radio – either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.
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The fame of Maria Foote's beauty and charm of manner had reached London, and in May 1814, she made her first appearance at Covent Garden Theatre and personated Amanthis in 'The Child of Nature' with such grace and effect that the manager complimented her with an immediate engagement.
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In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.
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Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.
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Promotions are the worst part of making a movie. We are actors and not salesmen. Still, you have to go to so many places to try and sell the movie.
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There are so many screenwriters with incredible stories to tell, so I hope there will be some kind of shift in the business where very few types of movies are now made by the studios. There needs to be different budgets for different audiences; not everything having to be a huge opening weekend.
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Give me love, like herCos lately I've been waking up alone.The pain splatters teardrops on my shirt.I told you I'd let them go.
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Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.
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Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.
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People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies.
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Ideology is a system of beliefs, held in common by the members of a collectivity.
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We've all seen 'Jewing it up' performances. They are about as miserable to watch as as 'camping it up' performances when representing gays.
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The Master was allergic to ideologies. 'In a war of ideas,' he said, 'it is people who are the casualties.' Later he elaborated: 'People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.'
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Duchamp named the mobiles and Arp the stabiles. Arp said, 'What did you call those things you exhibited last year? Stabiles?'
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Everyone believes that the prospect for a civil war has diminished significantly over the past several days. All the mainstream leaders of Iraq believe that civil war must be avoided. It's very positive that they are all saying it.
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When you're not winning, you're losing.
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Trying to out-guess Bonaparte; the thought makes my blood run cold.
