Kristian Nairn Quotes

Obviously, there's so many different types of gay people, but some people don't know that. Some people think we all look and act a certain type of way.

Kristian Nairn

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• I'm a huge fan of 'Heart On My Sleeve' - I think it has a 'Take That' feel to it! John Shanks and James Morrison wrote the track, and we spoke to Sony and asked if we could reference a 'Greatest Day'/'Rule The World' sound to make that epic ballad. I think it does the job.

  

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• I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.

  

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• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

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• Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.

  

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• I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.

  

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• If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.

  

  Mahavira
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• I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

  

  Ira Glass
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• This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

  

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• Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.

  

  Karen Elson
  • You
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• I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.

  

  Sally Quinn
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• You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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• I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

  

  Harold Evans
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• There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?

  

  J. J. Watt
  • World
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• This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
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• You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.

  

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• It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.

  

  Carice van Houten
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• All we have to do is find something we love doing each day, surround ourselves with like-minded people, and put all of our effort into that one thing at all times.

  

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• Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.

  

  Alex Tabarrok
  • People
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• There was so much racism when I was a kid, but it was also ignorant.

  

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• The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

  

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  • Good
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• Obviously, there's so many different types of gay people, but some people don't know that. Some people think we all look and act a certain type of way.

  

  Kristian Nairn
  • People
  • Different
  • Gay