Nicholson Baker Quotes
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
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There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced when I was in second grade. I moved around a lot. Actually, I went to about four different schools when I was in fourth grade.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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Bofors was a steelmaker that became a forgings company and then went on to build guns. Companies like Krupp and Thyssen were in steel and forgings before entering defence. There are similar examples in the U.K.; it is a natural progression.
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When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.
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I'm someone that speaks with their pads.
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To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
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It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
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But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.
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No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.
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I am part of this generation with 'Pirates of the Caribbean' and 'Peter Pan.' I think we all grew up in this culture of pirates.
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I used to trade stocks online, and I kind of felt gross, like, all I'm doing is making money off other people's creativity, and I'm not creating anything myself.
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When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.
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I do love video games. But after a while, you feel like you really need to get up and do something.
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Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.
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'I never saw so many tigers.'
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The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
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The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.
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Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
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I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go to Sue Ryder.
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Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.
