Naomi Novik Quotes
The gate is perfectly simple," Temeraire said. "There is only a bar across the fence, which one can lift very easily, and then it swings open; Nitidus could do it best, for his forehands are the smallest. Though it is difficult to keep the animals inside the pen, and the first time I learned how to open it, they all ran away," he added. "Maximus and I had to chase after them for hours and hours--it was not funny at all," he said, ruffled, sitting back on his haunches and contemplating Laurence with great indignation.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.
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Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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Since I was 19, I've always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I'll be lucky and there'll be a reason to go somewhere tropical for a while.
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.
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I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.
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Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'
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Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.
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I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
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One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.
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I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.
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I did a lot of sitcoms, and being funny isn't about being beautiful. Usually, beautiful people aren't the funny people.
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Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
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A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!
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Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away.
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The gate is perfectly simple," Temeraire said. "There is only a bar across the fence, which one can lift very easily, and then it swings open; Nitidus could do it best, for his forehands are the smallest. Though it is difficult to keep the animals inside the pen, and the first time I learned how to open it, they all ran away," he added. "Maximus and I had to chase after them for hours and hours--it was not funny at all," he said, ruffled, sitting back on his haunches and contemplating Laurence with great indignation.
