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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My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
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We tend to become social core groups, whatever our similar interest and background where we came through. It tends to be a filter through which people see themselves. It can be all different ethnicities. They can see themselves as San Franciscans, or Warriors fans. You want to build a tribe of viral advocates for that team.
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Consider the "new" woman. She's trying to be Pollyanna Borgia, clearly a conflict of interest. She's supposed to be a ruthless winner at work and a bundle of nurturing sweetness at home.
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How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment.
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I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.
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I think I'm confused, but I'm not sure!
