Larry Niven Quotes
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The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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I never really fitted in, because I've always been interested in really dark things.
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Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.
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I no longer limit myself.
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Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you're going to do carefully, and then be in the moment.
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
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I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.
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I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.
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Good material is good material.
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As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
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I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.
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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
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I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.
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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
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I personally believe technology can transform the functioning of the judicial system.
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I would have liked to personally have prosecuted Scott Peterson.
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In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't value intelligence enough; so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek.
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The Everton goal was very important. It was the one that got us through, and it was great to go into the crowd and celebrate with the fans.
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Fear is the brother of hate.
