James Nicoll Quotes
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
Zachary Quinto -
I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
Otto Dix -
There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
Edmund White -
Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.
Rami Malek -
I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
Nathalie Sarraute -
Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
Kate Beckinsale
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
Eddy Arnold -
Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
Salman Khan -
I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
Adam Clayton U2 -
I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
Laura Linney -
I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
Maia Mitchell -
Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.
Florence Nightingale -
I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.
Larry Brown -
Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
Abraham Verghese -
If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
Karen McDougal
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When I was younger, I felt it essential to see every movie ever made. Now I feel as though I've got to read every book, see every art show, watch every play and opera and concert and so on. It does not end, and of course there is truth in the old cliche that the more one knows, the more one realizes one knows nothing at all.
James Gray -
A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.
William Howard Taft -
Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.
Vance Havner -
Nature's first great title - mind.
George Croly -
So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.
Brit Marling -
I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.
James Nicoll