Larry Niven Quotes
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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The shows at the Hilton are the most exciting shows I've ever done. The stage is huge, but the theater is intimate, so we can have a magnificent production and still connect with the audience.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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But with two boys and a new puppy, we don't get out much. We're usually home doing stuff together as a family, like watching 'Modern Family.'
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I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.
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The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.
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I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
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I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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What I'm good at is making art.
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In my opinion, Jesus is God's attempt to reach man. But while I believe Jesus is the way to God, it makes no sense to hate people who disagree.
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If I don't believe I'm the guy that's going to help defeat Cuomo, then I won't go forward.
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People tend to see power carried out by conspiracy. It's easy to believe in.
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I never drink coffee, can you believe that? Works in morning television, doesn't drink coffee.
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I do not believe they've run out of surprises.
