Nick Baker (Nicholas Rowan Baker) Quotes
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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There are no ordinary moments.
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I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.
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Doing a lot of drama earlier in my career and now exploring comedy has been a treat for me, and I've had an absolute blast, and I hope to continue.
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Though there are laws against blasphemy and insult to religion in many European countries, France has institutionalised its anti-clerical past by proscribing religion from public life.
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Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.
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Al Jazeera is a representation of, you know, diversity in the Arab world. In our newsroom, we have every single nationality, we have every single, you know, ideology, we have every single background. However, when it comes to the screen, we have one code of ethics and one code of conduct.
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London is one of the most exciting cities in the world, with a melting pot of cultures and diversity.
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Secrets interest us all, I think.
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Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.
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'That would require an unprecedented leap of faith.''I don’t do faith,' Scorpio said.
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We tell our young managers: 'Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice'.
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Imagination comes of not having things.
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I don't know what I would do if it wasn't music, 'cause I'm really a one trick pony.
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You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.
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I exaggerate all our selves, our beings. I make fun of everything: of our life and what we are. But I don't tell jokes, really. I just exaggerate life, and it comes out funny.
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Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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Now the difficulty with those warnings is that they were not specific.
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Look at me, with my pretty bracelet and tiara... I'm a f****n' princess!
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I really got into the creepier and crawlier side of life.
