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Naomi Alderman Quotes

I don't think I have any particular problem with God.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: 1974

Topics

God Think Problem Any Particular

There are a lot of people who will come to me for advice or whatever.

People Me Advice Will Whatever Come

I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies.

Crazy Think Feel America Acting Our

I'm still a hard-edged reporter, but I'm an optimist. I'm a perpetual optimist.

Optimist Reporter Still Perpetual

I look up to the older generation of men - Arthur Scargill, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn - but my main role model has been my step-granddad Jim. He's brilliant, very political, quite eccentric.

Men Generation Political Look Up

There's no way to really mock up or simulate what I'm doing until I'm there. An exhibition for me is not a statement but an experiment.

Me Doing Way Experiment Up Until

On a day-to-day level, I love watching my kids accomplish the little things that seem trivial but are really milestones: seeing my son hit a baseball or watching my daughter draw something that actually looks like what she says she's drawing. Or hearing them say 'I love you.'

Love Son Daughter I Love You Drawing

There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.

Michael Ian Black

Future Hope Pain Tears Parent

My main form of exercise is my bike. I don't have a car, so I cycle everywhere.

Car Bike Exercise Cycle Everywhere

I know there's a difference between being successful and feeling successful. And if you ask me if I feel successful, the honest answer is 'not yet.'

Me Feel You Feeling Know Ask

I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle magazine and thinks - oh, how much better a handsome guy like you would look, David, without all those dumb ink stains stitched into your skin.

Swimming World Better Handsome Look

I trained for less than three-quarters of an hour, maybe five days a week - I didn't have time to do more. But it was all about quality, not quantity - so I didn't waste time jogging, ever.

Roger Bannister

Time Quality Week Waste Time More

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

Home Time Me Trying Said Run

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