James Nicoll Quotes

My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.

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• I'm a character actor.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Character
  • Actor

• My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Balance
  • Sweet
  • Cooking

• There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Business
  • Today

• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Insult

• I never thought of a career of as a model, and it was a total surprise for me when I won the contest and became Miss Chelyabinsk. Then I started modelling in Paris.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Career
  • Thought
  • Model

• I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Moment

• I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Up
  • Sports

• For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bioluminescent dinoflagellate. As I was nearing the completion of my degree, my major professor wrote a grant for an instrument for measuring the color of very dim light flashes from bioluminescent animals.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Light
  • Color
  • Animals

• Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Work
  • Game
  • Me

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Day
  • Movies
  • Towel

• If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Son
  • Door
  • Director

• The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Role

• When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform.

  

  Valerie June
  • First
  • New
  • New York

• If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Single

• For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Country
  • Why
  • Better

• I don't read reviews, and it's not because I don't think I can learn something, I'm sure I could learn a lot. I just that I feel very passionately about the work and especially when you're doing theater, you really only need one director and when you read reviews, you feel like you have twelve, because you respond to them, naturally.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • Work

• When I'm making a movie, I never watch the dailies. I see the movie once and that's it. It's really not about that for me. It's not about the externals. When I'm on a set, I don't want to see it. I want to be subjective in it. That's my habit now.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Movie
  • Habit
  • External

• War diminishes both civil and economic rights.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Economic
  • Rights

• I don't - I don't like that style, myself. I never did like Elvis's singing, but there was millions that did.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Style
  • Singing
  • Millions

• No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Tree
  • Plant
  • Roots

• My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.

  

  James Nicoll
  • War