Don Nickles Quotes
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Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
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The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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Yoga is a life-saver.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
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I think there is something to be said for not feeling like just because you're a model you have to be dressed up, look amazing, go to every party, and be smiling all the time.
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I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.
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You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?
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I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
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What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
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To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray.
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Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.
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As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
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A stronger E.U. of defence makes NATO stronger.
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That's the problem with soaps, of course. The stories never end. They can go on and on and on.
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Most of the boys would come with bits of equipment that their fathers had given them from their war days - helmets, canteens, binoculars, these kinds of things - that leant a kind of authenticity to the games we were playing. But, of course, my father never gave me anything. So I began to question him. You know, Why don't you have anything from the war? And I think he was...embarrassed to tell me he hadn't fought, because, you know, little boys want to turn their fathers into heroes, and he didn't want to be diminished in my eyes.
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What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.
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I can do what my energy, my time, to my other sort of commitment. And then also emotional, religious harmony. So in these two field, now that more or less I think the spirituality or human values in these fields, I may consider my only professional field. The political, national struggle, these are not my profession.
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A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God.
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My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.
