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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There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.
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Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.
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People are not born with racial prejudices. For example, children have none. Racial questions are questions of education. Africans learned racism form the European. Is it any wonder that they now think in terms of race - after all they've gone through under colonialism?
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It is now my opinion that in all Indian curricula of higher education there should be a place for Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and English, besides of course the vernacular.
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All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness.
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Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.
