James Nicoll Quotes
It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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In very simple language, Morrie always seems to be able to explain something that other people would take a chapter for, you know.
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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
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It is a very trying task for deceitful people, always to have to cover up their lack of sincerity and to repair the breaking of their word.
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own Government to save the environment.
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It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.
