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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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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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
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A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.
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All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
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She didn’t need to be received as nobility to be noble.
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Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
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You need to dream a bigger dream for yourself. That is the lesson. Hold the highest vision possible for your life and it can come true.
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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.
