John Niven
Related Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON Services need a clear focus. The problem is that [agencies] are not all singing from the same hymn s... DAVID BOLTON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me. MADALYN MURRAY O'HAIR BILL BURR The thing with gymnastics is people don't always know the events. So they'll ask me about th... MCKAYLA MARONEY MARCEL DUCHAMP What keeps me up at night? Waking up to a scoop at another newspaper or on TV. I'm probably comp... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH AMBROSE BIERCE J. K. ROWLING VIN SCULLY I totally accept that it's a legitimate criticism that when you are involved in the day-to-day s... NICK CLEGG KIERA CASS K. D. LANG UNKNOWN CHELSEA HANDLER I always have melodies flowing in my head - whether I'm just at home, at the mall, at a restaura... MANIKA I try to push myself a little every day. For me, it's doing 10 more seconds of whatever I'm ... ALEX MORGAN Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... I try to be as honest and open as I am with everything that I do because it's just, um, It helps... JAMIE FOXX Some people take the view that the universe is simply there, and it runs along - it's a bit as t... ROGER PENROSE THOMAS JANE My dad loves to be talked about, good or bad. He just loves it. He's not even hearing the conten... SARAH SILVERMAN I don't go around thinking I'm attractive or not attractive. It has never occurred to me. Pe... MELVYN BRAGG MIKE MCCAUL 'Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is b... JON SCIESZKA PADMA LAKSHMI With independent film, as an actor, you have more involvement - it's very much more connected. I... ALIA SHAWKAT I don't want the sort of funeral that everybody else has, but there is one hymn, a good Protesta... JENNIFER JOHNSTON I honestly don't diet or work out regularly. I'm just always running around - you'll nev... ABBEY CLANCY NEIL GAIMAN CARRIE-ANNE MOSS JENNIFER CARPENTER WILLIAM A. DEMBSKI BILL BURR PATRICK NESS You could have someone stand beside you and experience a whole other reality at the very same time l... WAKE UP! MESSAGE We were a family at war for a time. Now everyone is singing from the same hymn sheet. That's reflect... GEORGE FOULKES ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it... RANDALL PARK Simply, if you're working with good material, then it's right there, and you don't have ... DULE HILL Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words t... ALEX CHILTON I never went to school for acting; it just comes to me. I never practice. I read the script, I'l... DAKOTA GOYO DAVID BOWIE We read some of (Fox's) writings and sang a hymn that he had changed some of the words to a little b... ALAN SLATER If you're not religious, like me, how do you explain the transformational power that certain pla... GEOFF DYER PRIYANKA CHOPRA I try to travel as light as possible to avoid baggage issues. Los Angeles airport is notorious for b... KYLE MACLACHLAN CHAD HUGO But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But... IRENE DUNNE I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it's partly from an atheist p... ALEX GARLAND TOM ROBBINS An album is such a personal thing. It's something I always wanted to do. It's me doing me, s... DANNY AIELLO I'm a fun person, but to be the life of the party all the time, just to walk into a room and be ... AGNES BRUCKNER SARAH ADDISON ALLEN PLUTARCH Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking b... ZHU RONGJI I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me. MADALYN MURRAY O'HAIR Here's the thing: I was charming. Well read and well spoken. Observant and even kind. In other w... VICTOR LAVALLE Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide
another, that he may retire the so... ARISTIDES ("THE JUST") We make war that we may live in peace. ARISTIDES ("THE JUST") ADRIANA TRIGIANI SUMMER SANDERS ERNEST HEMINGWAY DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL I'm looking right down at the president, and if he lifts his head up he's looking straight at me, CHARLIE BROTMAN QUINCY JONES ED ASNER I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few wome... LEAH WARD SEARS In elementary school, I read every single space book in the library about all the planets, about neb... SUNIL NAGARAJ DONALD JOHANSON ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH JOHN CUSACK Just a ton of excitement, and the way the guys are together on this, they're looking at me to gr... KURT BUSCH MARK RUFFALO NICK CANNON My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking dow... MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO The only real failure in life is giving up. On looking back let it stand to our credit in life's bal... A.G. STREET I didn't know who was on the team, but I saw every eye as I walked down the aisle. It looked lik... AL KALINE EMINEM BARACK OBAMA I told Ken, the other day, I said it's taken me year to be able to think about nothing, while you're... NANCY JOHNSON Being on the cover of 'Vogue' at 15 meant nothing to me. I never really understood what it w... CARMEN DELL'OREFICE They tell me I have a good shot at starting but that is just talk. I got to do the same thing as I h... MIKE BROWN JEANIENE FROST NOEL GALLAGHER I had a day off, and I was walking down the street one day, and this Mercedes pulls up alongside me,... KENNY BAKER Typically, my advice to young artists is not to wait for someone to allow you to do the thing. Just ... DAVEED DIGGS You go from one standpoint where you're on all four (wheels) and looking at the front of the car to ... CORY MCCLENATHAN I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and se... J. B. SMOOVE RUSSELL PETERS LEWIS CARROLL
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Did you ever spell a word so bad that your spell check has absolutely no clue what you're trying... 
I am against the word 'anti' because it's a little bit like 'atheist,' as compar... 
TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word... 
The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work an... 
The game is just one long conversation, and I'm anticipating that, and I will say things like &#... 
We'll when he lets his guard down he's okay. Like when he just talks without checking his words or y... 
The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there. 
Hymns appropriate to the occasion.
Dentist's Hymn -- "Crown Him with Many Crowns"
TV Weatherman's Hy... 
Stand-up was my entree into the entertainment world. I didn't have to act out somebody else'... 
To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never l... 
I take ISIS at its word. When they said, in their words, 'We'll use and exploit the refugee ... 
For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough t... 
I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... 
I just can't stand the sound of my voice sometimes, or how my face looks. There are always a few... 
Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look... 
I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe v... 
I feel like I'm way down this deep, deep hole and I'm looking up and all there is is this little dot... 
until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone 
Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's becaus... 
When I grew up, I never saw anyone looking like me on TV, you know? I'm so glad to see a lot mor... 
For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I g... 
I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse ... 
There's an old hymn called 'How Can I Keep from Singing?' That's what writing feels ... 
Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will
march straight ahead without looking ... 
The 'Story of Silent Night', which was given to me one Christmas when I was six - it was the... 
My healthiest habit is eating a healthy breakfast every morning. I never miss breakfast. As a busy m... 
Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... 
Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! 
Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it&#... 
I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know t... 
Journalists often ask me when I go to the field, 'What do you expect to find?' And my answer... 
The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... 
There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be te... 
Sometimes I catch her looking at me a bit more amorously than usual. It certainly is the type of thi... 
One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the... 
I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it woul... 
Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing... 
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With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before ... 
You do stand-up because you have to do it. If you're doing it to become 'famous,' you... 
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
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If you put a frog in boiling water, it'll jump straight out. If you put it in cold water and gra... 
I am very fortunate. I am a glass-half-full eternal optimist type to the point of being a moron. But... 
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War... 
But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form. 
I do not believe they've run out of surprises. 
What a terrible feeling to love soemone and not be able to help them. 
It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the m... 
I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like th... 
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... 
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al... 
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai... 
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am... 
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... 
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... 
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. 
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. 
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. 
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ... 
When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b... 
The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi... 
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ... 
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Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa... 