Kristian Nairn Quotes
I trained to become a sign-language interpreter because it helps you read physical expression and the emotions of body language.
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I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.
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I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
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In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.
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Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.
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I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could.
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For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.
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When you write about faith, people will be upset with you no matter what. I've heard from readers who were disgusted with the depiction of monotheistic religion. I've also heard from readers who were upset because my portrayal of faith did not adhere to their specific doctrines. Fortunately, I have high risk tolerance.
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My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.
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We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.
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Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
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Music was as natural as breathing in our house.
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…the totalitarian states, whether of the fascist or the communist persuasion, are more than superficially alike as dictatorships, in the suppression of dissent, and in operating planned and directed economies. They are profoundly alike.
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Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.
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I can't stand interpretation. I think it's one of the great scourges of the theater. I just think, 'Don't get in the way of the play.'
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Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, the stance they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues.
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The Homeric hero becomes a split-man as he assumes an individual ego. (p. 58)
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I trained to become a sign-language interpreter because it helps you read physical expression and the emotions of body language.
