David Nicholls Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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I actually like football a great deal.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - constantly doubting ourselves, worrying, wondering if we've made a mistake. Could we have done better? Are we good people? Are we bad people?
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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It feels great to have your own views reflected back to you, and you feel so right, but actually it's very dangerous. Because to make good decisions, you need to have a clear view of what all the options are.
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One of my central philosophies is to be creatively driven so I have to be extraordinarily creative in the way I get things done and I have to be really flexible. Striving for the best creativity can be a really moving target if you're trying to budget anything because if you come up with a better idea for something and it's going to make the movie stronger then you have to do it. And that's what I do. The difficulty is that you have to use more judgement as a producer then you might in other places. I have to make unbelievably great creative decisions.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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For a while, I drank the juice - I did things the way everybody else said to. I listened to their advice. But it didn't work.
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I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.
