Nicholson Baker Quotes
It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the order of one event then you have to call it fiction or you get all the credits of non-fiction without paying the price.
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I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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I like people trying to do two things at once.
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When you talk, you realize that the pains and worries you feel are universal; you no longer feel alone in your sadness. You relate and find comfort in the fact that there are other women going through the same things as you are.
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The reason it is difficult is that we have been conditioned to laugh at conspiracy theories, and few people will risk public ridicule by advocating them. On the other hand, to endorse the accidental view is absurd. Almost all of history is an unbroken trail of one conspiracy after another. Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception.
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This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters - you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the order of one event then you have to call it fiction or you get all the credits of non-fiction without paying the price.
