Gerard I. Nierenberg Quotes
If I give you my idea and you give me yours, then we each have two ideas, and together we have four.
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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.
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I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and their parents. I definitely think that teens are a product of their parents. You either end up just like them or you consciously make the decision to be unlike them.
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I definitely have family on the brain.
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It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
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Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.
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When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece.
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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This is the most accurate our team has been since I can remember. It wound up being one of those games you dream about.
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I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.
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The spiritual meaning of every situation [is] not what happens to us, but what we do with what happens to us and who we decide to become because of what happens to us. The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through.
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I'm fascinated by twins. It's such an interesting thing. I'm an only child, so I don't have a sibling. But, if you think about the bond that siblings have, that intensifies so much when you think about being in the womb together.
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If I give you my idea and you give me yours, then we each have two ideas, and together we have four.
