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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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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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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What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking.
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I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!'
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It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.
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A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
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My father liked Iowa. He lived his whole life in the state, and is even now working his way through eternity there, in Glendale Cemetery in Des Moines.
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Trying to out-guess Bonaparte; the thought makes my blood run cold.
