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Nicholson Baker Quotes

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?

Nicholson Baker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 7, 1957

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Worry Chair You Living Room Your

I'm far happier now than when it seemed I was on the cover of every magazine in the land.

Now Land Magazine Far Cover Than

Some people end up becoming just a conservator of the one thing they did and making sure they get their merch out and all that.

John Cameron Mitchell

People End Some People Out Up Sure

I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.

Morning Time Sleep Night Thinking

We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustration and poverty, we must expect to pay the price.

Children Frustration Grow Poverty Up

I don't think I'm a gay icon. I have no axe to grind. I mean, I'm clearly not homophobic! I'm not pro or con.

Think Gay Grind Mean Clearly Con

When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch.

Michelle Branch

Peace I Am Me Brain Feel Body

I made my first complete song when I was 9.

Song First Complete Made

I don't want to get on base and just run for the sake of running. What good is it if you steal 100 bases and get caught 60 times?

Good You Want Run Get Just

I was very empty after my father passed away. It was an emotional time, as it would be for anyone, but to be in the studio every day was kind of cathartic and healing and it just seemed very natural to continue.

Father Time Day Healing Every Day

Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.

Peace Divorce Opposite Different

The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn't be greater.

Fishing Greater Between Juxtaposition

There's something about somebody who does something special in the UFC that they're allotted certain freedoms and wiggle room around the rules. I'm just not in that category. So if I want to fight Georges St-Pierre or Nick Diaz or Nate Diaz, then it's all the hooplah and all the talk about it.

Fight Rules Want Special Talk Room

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