Nick Laird Quotes
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In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
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Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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Considering retirement is like skirting with the reality of what's to come, and I think that's why so many athletes decide to do more introspection at that point.
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I don't read the critics.
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The bigger a company gets, the more people are involved in decisions, the slower decisions get made. Look, the whole theory of startups is that three motivated people can go and do something that every company can't.
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I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.
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After a day of writing, I love nothing more than to go into my kitchen and start chopping onions and garlic on the way to cooking an improvised meal with whatever ingredients are on hand. Cooking is the perfect counterpoint to writing. I find it more relaxing than anything else, even naps, walks, or hot baths.
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Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.
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You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development.
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
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Let me say something else about this generation. As Commander-in-Chief, I’m pretty tired of some folks trash-talking America’s military and troops.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461
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(...) who is he that is not 'he' because of an idiot's ignorance?
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There is no arguing with Johnson: for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
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The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards.
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Nulla fides regni sociis, omnisque potestasinpatiens consortis erit.
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Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?
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Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.
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I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.
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As soon as I feel people are talking too much about my character, it's time to leave.
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For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.
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You become a writer because you like to be alone in a room with your books.
