Naomi Novik Quotes
The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed, or you're away from your computer - carry a small paper notebook and write a sentence of description while you're waiting on line at a coffee shop. I think of this as baiting a hook. Even if you have a few days in a row where nothing comes except those ten words, I find that as long as you have to think about the novel enough to write ten words, the chances are that more will come.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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There's no regrets for me.
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The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.
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My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.
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The whole idea that the Constitution of the United States would be used to advance a political agenda is absurd.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.
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Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
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Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.
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When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.
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Splatter the brain matter of my enemies, with the same bullet trajectory that murdered John Kennedy.
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The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or your day is completely jam-packed, or you're away from your computer - carry a small paper notebook and write a sentence of description while you're waiting on line at a coffee shop. I think of this as baiting a hook. Even if you have a few days in a row where nothing comes except those ten words, I find that as long as you have to think about the novel enough to write ten words, the chances are that more will come.
