Bill Nighy Quotes
I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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I don't learn in a certain way, but I have other skills.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can't write your book.
Colson Whitehead -
Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.
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All of the trickster, rascal characters that I write have the voice I aspire to. In real life, you can't be that obnoxious and get away with it.
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I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.
