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.
e. e. cummings -
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.
Camilla Belle -
My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
Carl Hiaasen -
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.
Baba Kalyani -
When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.
Adam Lambert -
I'm someone that speaks with their pads.
Malik Jackson
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To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
J. J. Abrams -
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.
Adam McKay -
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
Ralph Fiennes -
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.
Umberto Eco -
No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.
Ian Hamilton Finlay -
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.
Yasmine Al Masri
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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.
Nathan Fielder -
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.
Warwick Davis -
I do love video games. But after a while, you feel like you really need to get up and do something.
Patrick Chan -
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.
Harlan Coben -
'I never saw so many tigers.'
J. D. Salinger -
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Zig Ziglar
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I've only kept one award in my whole life, and it's the coolest thing ever. Mizuno gave me a samurai sword for winning the Cy Young. It's awesome.
Zack Greinke -
You have to be responsible for the energy you're putting out into the world.
Oprah Winfrey -
There are lots of people in the world whose existence doesn't revolve around American culture.
Emily Haines Broken Social Scene -
Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.
William Alfred Quayle -
When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.
Charles Lyell -
Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.
Nicholson Baker