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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I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a book.
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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 remember feeling ashamed, for some reason. I was ashamed of my parents. I couldn't face some of my friends at school anymore, because I desperately wanted to have the classic, you know, typical family. Mother, father. I wanted that security, so I resented my parents for quite a few years because of that.
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There is no sin but ignorance.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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If you feel good about yourself, even putting a little bit of makeup - I don't usually wear makeup, but you know, someone said to me, 'Why don't you spend that extra five minutes to make yourself feel good?' And it's just a bit of self-care so you can go out and face the world, and I think we need that right now.
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It's the most amazing cast, a dream cast. We laugh all the time.
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I get 'Hodor' tweeted at me a lot.
