Kristian Nairn Quotes
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn't shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.
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We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
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Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
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Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.
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When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.
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I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
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I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.
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I don't want to be size zero and I'm glad I'm not.
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I think I have just evolved as a person, as a human being. I like fitness. It's an important part of my everyday life, and I enjoy and endorse a healthy lifestyle.
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Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that's when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past.
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When you grow up and you start having all these problems and your little sister gets pregnant, you're dealing with all these money problems and bills and the company, you ain't going to want to talk about that. Or maybe you will, but me personally, I just can't do that.
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Be at peace, my friend. One thing I have learnt about Death is that his bark is worse than his bite.
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I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don't need to beat yourself up about it.
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Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners.
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I get 'Hodor' tweeted at me a lot.
