Bill Nighy Quotes
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But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.
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My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.
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Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
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As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.'
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.
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Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.
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Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.
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Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.
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I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
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A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
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The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
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I suppose one of the challenges of writing the word-side of music these days is trying to decipher and communicate how this planet is very overwhelming at this point. The difficulties we face are overwhelming. It's very difficult to give yourself the time to breathe and appreciate the joy and beauty that might be just right around us.
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All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.
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Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place.
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Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.
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All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
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A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.
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One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.
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The pilgrims continue to come. Only God knows what each one of us brings, and with what kind of heart. We come mystically to this cave. We know the mess we bring and the often distracted heart that brings it. But this is all we have--all we are. One stretches out his arms to receive.
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I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.
