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Nicholson Baker Quotes

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

Nicholson Baker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Beginning Me Control World Living

I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.

Life Job Beer Writing Rest My Life

I like when a man has a positive self-image, no matter what he looks like. I'm not into rock-hard abs.

Jessica Parker Kennedy

Positive Man Looks Matter Self-Image

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

Jesse Eisenberg

Theatre Feel You Illusion Way More

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

Business Believe Better Being Behind

Make no mistake about it. Bad habits are called 'bad' for a reason. They kill our productivity and creativity. They slow us down. They hold us back from achieving our goals. And they're detrimental to our health.

Goals Health Creativity Mistake Slow

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Good Men More Praise Unjust Than

The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.

Michael Shermer

Acceptance Principal Position General

I'm not convinced that stealing an iPhone is a felony or stealing a bike is a felony.

Bike iPhone Stealing Convinced

The worst question is, 'Where do you see yourself in five years?' I don't know. Variety is the spice of life. That's the best way to describe it.

Life Best Yourself You Know Spice

I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.

Good Time Day Struggle Perfection

The DJ still has the relationship with the people, I believe. I don't know to call the DJ 'the ambassadors' or what, but we still are connecting the dots, getting the good stuff and passing it on to the people. DJs still have relevance, even with the technology that elevates the DJ beyond being a selector.

Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Good Technology Relationship People

Your opinion is not influenced by anyone when you're alone at a matinee. It's just you and the movie.

Alone Opinion You Just Your Movie

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