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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China is the big economic engine in Asia, so what happens is, as China growth expands, these countries in the periphery of China, whether it be Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, they end up growing with China because they become big exporters.
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Material things aren't important to me.
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I've always believed that it's important to give something back to the world and community.
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A transition, by definition, means you start in one place and finish in another.
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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.
