John Niven Quotes

If you watch a group of schoolchildren eating lunch together, you cannot help but notice how it is a comically Lilliputian version of the adult thing - the cocked eyebrows of conversation, the reaching for condiments, the shovelling of food into tiny mouths.

John Niven

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Accolades are there to congratulate you but also to make you understand that it's not over. You now have to continue trying to improve the craft and keep going. It's not something to rest on.

Joe Morton

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I happened to be one of those guys who doesn't play much golf.

John McEnroe

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I don't harbor any anti-male feeling in my heart.

Ann Wilson

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Prairie grassland once covered much of North America's midsection. European settlers turned nearly all of it into farms and ranches, and today the prairie landscape survives mainly in isolated reserves.

Stephen Kinzer

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I can speak Esperanto like a native.

Spike Milligan

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People always tell me my books are so dark; I don't think they're particularly dark. I'm not like that. I'm quite a cheerful soul.

Ruth Rendell

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Gender is a key marker of power and powerlessness. Most of the structures of how our world works are biased in terms of men.

Mary Beard

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The very fact that I've had those established me to continue on to do new music and new projects.

Juice Newton

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I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.

Jonathan Carroll

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Even buying a swimsuit is super difficult. And then making one is even harder.

Chloe Sevigny

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I have this nook at Milk Bar that's my office, and my desk was just full of every box of Kellogg's cereal, and at different times during the day, I would open up a box, eat a bowl of cereal, and I live in a world of Post-it notes, so I would leave tasting notes on all the cereal.

Christina Tosi

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You can't master time, but you have to work your hardest to manage it.

Chuck D

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