Nick Bilton Quotes
Most people go through life thinking that tomorrow they’re going to do something great. Tomorrow will be the day that they wake up and discover what they were put on this earth to do. But then tomorrow comes—and goes. As does the next day. Before long, they realize that there aren’t that many tomorrows left.
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The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.
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By necessity, budgets require hard choices.
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
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The gimmicky thing I'm not very keen on.
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I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.
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I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.
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You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
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When I was a kid, I loved 'Little Women.'
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They took away time, and they gave us the clock.
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Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.
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If you set your bar at 'amazing' it's awfully difficult to start. Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn't going to be amazing. Your tenth one might not be either. Confronted with the gap between your vision of perfect and the reality of what you've created, the easiest path is no path. Shrug. Admit defeat. Hit delete. One more reason to follow someone else and wait for instructions. Of course, the only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing. But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are.
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The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow.
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You just don't know if you'll be around tomorrow. You just don't.
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The only way to bury the past is to build tomorrow on top of it.
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We'd been away for a year and we needed to come back with a big impact, but just another dance track would not have broken any new ground. As far as I'm concerned 'Firestarter' set a whole new level for English music, that's my honest opinion, crossing the barriers between punk and dance. Keith re-invented himself and it was a great introduction to him. It was onvincing but not just because it was #1. The track sounds like it means business, the way Keith delivers the vocals, the music has such attitude. It was a landmark.
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Most people go through life thinking that tomorrow they’re going to do something great. Tomorrow will be the day that they wake up and discover what they were put on this earth to do. But then tomorrow comes—and goes. As does the next day. Before long, they realize that there aren’t that many tomorrows left.
