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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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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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'm the oldest of three girls. My sisters say I can be bossy.
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We need to stay on the leading edge of technology, that technology in our products, in our internal process and manufacturing. But most importantly, we need the talent. It's multidisciplinary talent. It's talent that knows how to operate globally, that has technology savvy and a business savvy.
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I am human and I make mistakes.
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I could never hate anyone I knew.
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I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.
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Fear is the brother of hate.
