David Nicholls Quotes
Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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I did anything that would get me on the air.
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I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
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For years Don Imus was just – boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
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For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.
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I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.
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In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
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I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.
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Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.
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When somebody keeps telling you, 'This book is amazing,' you sort of have this pleasing instinct to say, 'Oh, let me make you happy again; let me do that trick again.'
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I think there's a really mature side of me that can deal with problems - but when I'm with my friends, I get to act much more kidlike.
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Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.
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I have a lot of milestones that I'm proud of when it comes to music, 'Amerikkka's Most Wanted,' I'm extremely proud of that. Just because of what I had to go through to get that music produced, that album produced.
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Needless to say, I would have loved to have been a black belt instead of actually just wearing one to hold up my pants!
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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My hair's naturally dirty-dishwater light brown. Ugly.
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I think I wanted to be a punk-rocker before I wanted to be anything else. I remember wanting a mohawk, and I wanted to cut the sleeves off of my jean jacket because I used to want to be Dirty Dan from Sha-Na-Na. This is before hip-hop was even around. I had the skinny piano tie. I had it, man.
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Growing up, I was constantly reminded to not to air our family's dirty laundry. Part of why domestic violence is allowed to continue is because there is often an unwritten rule in many families of abuse: Don't ask. Don't tell. Keeping quiet does no good. I found that sharing my story liberated me from my past. There is power in storytelling and, in that, healing. Owning my truth also empowered me. I will no longer be manipulated or controlled by guilt or shame.
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I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.
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Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.
