Naomi Novik Quotes
All of a sudden, I sort of started to feel that I was constrained by the characters as opposed to enjoying them. And that remains for me to this day the line that I know where it's like, OK, you're not writing fan fiction anymore.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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I don't go out of the way to take special care of myself.
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I've the highest respect and regards for Shankar sir. He has taken Tamil cinema to a new level. I would have loved to work with him, but there are some date hassles.
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If you think you're going to work with Cameron Crowe and not get into his music, you're crazy. But he doesn't force it on you. He doesn't force anything on you, which really makes things easier.
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I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.
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I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.
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I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.
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There's this element of surprise when you're writing songs, like it's something outside of you that you get to be part of. And it's just exciting. And that's why I keep writing - because I like that feeling.
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Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.
Mandy Bujold -
I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes.
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Tolerance to my mind has been greatly overrated . . . . I take as much pleasure in detesting the good brothers and sisters of the [Anti-Saloon] League as they have in hating me.
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There is a seeded bread that I bring from South Africa. I bring home 10, 20 loaves. I am so bad with this bread. I've literally been in hotels and brought my own: "Please, can you toast this? I have my own bread." They're like, "You have your own bread?" And I'll pull it out!
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Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.
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I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.
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All of a sudden, I sort of started to feel that I was constrained by the characters as opposed to enjoying them. And that remains for me to this day the line that I know where it's like, OK, you're not writing fan fiction anymore.
