Audrey Niffenegger Quotes
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.
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I do not like violence.
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'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.
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Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.
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I remember Tom Stoppard saying to me when I came out, 'I feel so sorry for you, because you'll never have children.' These days I would say, 'Well, why not, Tom?'
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I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.
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I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived superficially as being problematic.
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I always look forward, not back.
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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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I never like seeing myself on screen.
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Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.
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I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.
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I think 'Lovin' Feelin' was probably one of the most - probably in '64 and '65, one of the more dramatic love songs for these kids to grab hold of. I mean, they had been listening to, you know, kind of cute songs, and 'Lovin' Feelin' was just a strong, powerful song.
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The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.
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I will never be good at the oboe. No matter what happens, I will never be good at it because I just don't have that much time on my hands. I don't have the gift of going back to being a child and having my brain develop around this instrument.
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I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.
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Am I being paid back for something I did? He asked himself. Something I don't know about or remember? But nobody pays back, he reflected. I learned that a long time ago: you're not paid back for the bad you do nor the good you do. It all comes out uneven at the end. Haven’t I learned that by now, if I've learned anything?
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It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.
