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 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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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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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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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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I just love to see people having a good time.
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I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.
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You will perhaps say that the sinews and muscles of a bird are incomparably more powerful than those of a man... But the reply to this is that such great strength gives it a reserve of power beyond what it ordinarily uses...
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Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.
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With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.
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I gave Mitt Romney some donations for his campaign because he was a friend, and friendship came first. I've always been a Democrat, and I've had different views than Mitt Romney. I'm not Mitt Romney, and I think people will realize that when they meet me out there.
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The world is my workshop. It is not my home.
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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.
