David Nail Quotes
There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin American cast and that we shot the show entirely on location in Colombia.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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As a young girl, I was too intent on getting to London and drama school and out of east Yorkshire to think about winning Oscars. I did win a Bafta once, and was so unprepared for it I jabbered on for a minute - a minute too long.
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People like Bill Murray are incredible at what they do and are definitely my flavour. Although Will Ferrell, Sacha Baron Cohen and Ricky Gervais are also incredible actors. In their comedy, they make these stupid people feel so real. These guys are really setting the bar very high, and I learn as much from them about acting as I do about comedy.
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If the protection of the environment involves costs, they should be justly distributed, taking due account of the different levels of development of various countries and the need for solidarity with future generations.
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Without hope we are lost.
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There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.
