John Niven Quotes

America has the largest nuclear capability in the world. All this power neither prevented 9/11 nor helped to avenge it. How could it? Who would America have attacked?

John Niven

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It's something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting out on the front lawn. Dad loved classical music and we might be listening to some Stravinsky or something and having some tea and eggs. And he'd say, 'Oh, good stuff, isn't it?'

Jennifer Grant

GoodMusicDaySimpleTeaHappy

I announced to my mother one day when I was 8 that I wanted to be a serious actress.

Meredith Salenger

MotherDaySeriousOne DayActress

Working with the Coens was a dream come true.

Simon Helberg

DreamTrueWorkingCome

As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and sometimes writing takes a turn and it's not something we necessarily have control over. It's just a lot of random dumb luck, so when things click, you've just got to enjoy it.

Mike Colter

TimeLuckWritingControlRandom

I've studied authoritarianism for a very long time - for 40 years - and they're started by people's attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.

Jordan Peterson

TimePeopleControlLongLong Time

Culture is a thousand things, a thousand times. It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall.

Brian Chesky

CultureWalkingYouValuesLiving

Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.

Syd Barrett

FunHardEverythingUsedWorking

I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important.

Scarlett Thomas

GoodMeReadingThinkEndYou

When I started writing, I thought nobody would understand the things that I liked. Then I began getting a lot of letters from people who said they were waiting for me to express what they felt they couldn't, so I kept writing.

Novala Takemoto

WaitingPeopleMeWritingThought

Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be home looking at how the math tutor was today. But it is what it is.

Renee James

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Taking away from someone else will never make you any better.

Renee Olstead

BetterSomeoneYouWillNeverAway

The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.

Marion Barry

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