Kristian Nairn Quotes
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There is no must in art because art is free.
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Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
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I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
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The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.
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The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.
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I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.
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I grew up watching horror movies with my dad. For as long as I can remember. I grew up loving being terrified. 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' at sleepovers. Hiding behind my fingers.
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My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.
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Being vulnerable, in my opinion, is not a weakness. It's being human. It is allowing yourself to not have all the answers.
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Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.
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A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified or replaced by a better one, never abandoned with nothing left to take its place.
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To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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Of course I have had thoughts about going into politics.
