James Nicoll Quotes
Most of my scars are not fire-related and I no longer say 'I know what I am doing' at critical moments.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it. It was stress relieving.
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We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
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I remember actually liking a girl in high school who was kind of an outcast and weird, and people made fun of her. I remember hanging out with her, but I was apprehensive about telling anyone I really liked her.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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Verily there is nothing in all Europe so beautiful as Valldemosa.
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I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.
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I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout.
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A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won't tell it.
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Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.
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Anybody that talks to this asshole is a fuckin' asshole.
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I have a lot of energy after 2 A.M. I like to sleep in the morning. I have some problems at the start of the day.
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We're all capable if we have faith and passion.
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You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them.
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Things don’t have to end. They can begin again.
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Most of my scars are not fire-related and I no longer say 'I know what I am doing' at critical moments.
