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When I sold my first book, 'A Conspiracy of Tall Men,' it was part of a two-book deal. It wasn't hugely lucrative, but it was enough money for me to quit the paralegal job I had in San Francisco.


Noah Hawley

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NOAH FELDMAN I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar an...
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TIMOTHY NOAH This is the SEC. We've got to be ready at all times. We've got to be on edge. It's unacceptable.
JOAKIM NOAH We like to say it's acoustic driven rock.
NOAH SMITH Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so.
TIMOTHY NOAH Self-realization is attained only when we comprehend the difference between the things we could own ...
NELSON NOAH Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.
TIMOTHY NOAH If Romney were a chair, he'd be a squishy, expensively upholstered easy chair that bore the impr...
TIMOTHY NOAH The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them...
TIMOTHY NOAH Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When comb...
NOAH FELDMAN Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions.
TIMOTHY NOAH I like the anonymity, the fact that you're a stranger making strangers laugh. You aren't for...
TREVOR NOAH I've never been afraid to fall in love, nor impatient to find it.
TREVOR NOAH Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.
TIMOTHY NOAH When I see this atmosphere, I miss tennis. It's a lot tougher, because you feel helpless and can't h...
YANNICK NOAH An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in pr...
TIMOTHY NOAH Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of Ameri...
TIMOTHY NOAH Life is glorious, but it can be counted on to be cruel.
NOAH GORDON When the topic is growing income inequality, it's hard to prettify an imbalance between the rich...
TIMOTHY NOAH In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to m...
TIMOTHY NOAH Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era mak...
NOAH FELDMAN Iraqi national identity under Saddam Hussein never truly incorporated Shiites or Kurds. Sunnis, who ...
NOAH FELDMAN The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude t...
TIMOTHY NOAH If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations th...
TIMOTHY NOAH The transformation of the United States from a traditional republic to a democratic nation run in la...
NOAH FELDMAN To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America he...
TIMOTHY NOAH There's more outrage on Twitter about a One Direction split or about what one band member said t...
TREVOR NOAH A movie set or any set is a completely private place and it feels very insulated.
NOAH EMMERICH I know he's been working really hard. I talk to him all the time, and I feel like he's trying as har...
YANNICK NOAH We weren't supposed to make it here in time for the game but we flew to Miami and chartered a plane ...
YANNICK NOAH Looking back, that was selfish of me.
YANNICK NOAH It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I fe...
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