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B. J. Novak Quotes

There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: July 31, 1979

Topics

Good You Know Watch Make Glad

A breakdown involves getting to the point at which your mental state prevents you from doing the normal things of your everyday life. I remember from my own experience that I was completely ambushed by mine.

Life Experience Doing Remember You

In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.

Work Music Man Desert Long Lost

I'm from Cleveland. I love this place. I'm never going to leave.

Love Place Never Leave Going I Love

I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example - I do value their counsel.

Simon Winchester

Hero Value People Think Find Who

I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I'm more interested in poetry that is like an endless film, long stories, things that weave together many different strands, like a big piece of cloth, not like a photograph.

Robert Bringhurst

Together Poetry Think Long Know Big

I promised never to let the Rwandan Genocide die because I knew the Rwandans didn't have much power internationally and certainly didn't have the resources. I felt it was my duty having witnessed it, and having stayed to witness it, that I had to talk about it and keep it going.

Power Die Duty Talk Never Resources

Ireland is home. And I'd love to move home. That's always been the plan.

Love Home Plan Always Move Been

The State Department has promised they will never have another temporary mission facility like the one in Benghazi that is so lightly protected. But at the same time, history tends to repeat itself here, and so it might not repeat itself in exactly the same way as Benghazi.

Mitchell Zuckoff

History Time Mission Will Way Never

My sister plays piano, and my brother used to be on the drums. My dad sings; he's got a good voice.

Good Brother Sister Voice Piano Got

I'm told sometimes I look like Goldie Hawn, and I get chuffed about that.

Look Sometimes Get Like About

I'm a natural optimist.

Bozoma Saint John

Optimist Natural

When I write short fiction or novellas, I like to leave a hint of the fantastic, of the unreal. If you write a completely fantastic novel with ghosts and everything, the effect is less powerful than if you portray an absolutely realistic situation and, in the middle of this, you put a layer of fantasy, of mystery.

Antonio Munoz Molina

Short Mystery You Powerful Situation

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