Kayvan Novak Quotes
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that's not stereotypical, even if I'm playing a stereotypical role.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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I love going to the Via Giulia, a beautiful old cobbled street, which has a bridge at one end behind the Palazzo Farnese. It has long creepers hanging from it, and is the most evocative, beautiful place to stand and enjoy the city.
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You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.
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So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.
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My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition.
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My biggest regret is that I wasn't able to help give our fans a championship.
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I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.
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It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.
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Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.
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I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.
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Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around.
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Divorce laws have given women economic support after divorce; no laws have given men emotional support after divorce. Men are required to continue their obligations to their exes in the form of alimony or child support; women are not required to continue their obligation to their exes in the form of homemaking or nurturing.
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For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.
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The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.
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Social evolution is a resultant of the interaction of two wholly distinct factors: the individual ... bearing all the power of initiative and origination in his hands; and, second, the social environment with its power of adopting or rejecting both him and his gifts. Both factors are essential to change. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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...if you get confused, just listen to the music play.
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My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.
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I think I'm confused, but I'm not sure!
