Kristian Nairn Quotes
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I don't care if you are for having Mexico pay for the border wall, or you want to repeal and replace Obamacare, or if you want women to have complete access to reproductive rights - I don't care. The fact is, if you don't get the nuclear issue right, none of the other ones matter.
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I am who I am.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.
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If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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I spent a lot of time over in England wrestling at Butlins holiday camps for Brian Dixon and All Star Wrestling.
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.
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I would rather be lying in a bed than changing one.
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Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.
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I write songs based on things I see in the culture around me.
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It was like a heavyweight fight, man. Just blow for blow, everybody playing their heart out. The Indians never gave up either, and I can't believe we're finally standing, after 108 years, finally able to hoist the trophy.
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The artist make things move, and is moved. He is policeman, motor car, everything at once. He who makes things move also creates rest. That which aesthetically is brought to rest is art.
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So many people are looking at what's wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what's right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.
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I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.
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I have no difficulty with career duality!
