Bill Nighy Quotes
My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
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Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
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Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
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I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
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I wash my face day and night. I actually really love Dr. Lancer face wash, and I also love Neutrogena.
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really sad. But I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren't always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening.
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I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.
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TV is my sleeping pill.
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Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.
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I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.
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When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can't write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the 'i's' small.
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My mother taught us that ambition is part of femininity and really taught us to have substance but also style.
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My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
