Nell Newman Quotes
Education is very important, and the botanical garden is the place to do that. I grew up in a semi-rural area and learned from that being my playground.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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It's actually kind of cool that women have taken to me. Because now I have a whole different demographic when it comes to the audiences. I have women who come out and support my movies, and that is a huge demographic for me, which is great because some actors don't have a female base at all.
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
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I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.
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Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
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I believe that everyone, regardless of their beliefs, deserves the dignity of being called by their name.
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The forces of division have begun to raise their ugly head again … It reminds me: We've got a tragic history when it comes to race in this country. A lot of pent-up anger and mistrust and bitterness. This country wants to move beyond these kinds of things.
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God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.
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It was important to score points today and I went for them with my guts.
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If you're trying to develop a new drug, that costs you a billion dollars to get through the FDA. If you want to start a software company, you can get started with maybe $100,000.
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Education is very important, and the botanical garden is the place to do that. I grew up in a semi-rural area and learned from that being my playground.
