Larry Niven Quotes
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.
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My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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If I'm preparing for something and I've got a huge day the next day, I have to get into character the night before to assess the scene. I can't assess a scene unless I'm in character, if that makes sense.
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I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.
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There were so many groups that I had in college, but I was always the solo singer. But what made it so unusual back in the day was that I was a black girl playing with all these white musicians, and I was also singing rock music on top of it.
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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All of us grow.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.
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I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.
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I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.
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When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.
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When I do a festival, I want everyone to have a party, I think it is kind of similar to a club where everyone is there to have a good time and celebrate not being at work or just being able to have fun. I love people dancing to my music as well; if I can make them dance I feel happy.
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My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
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My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.
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3) Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
