James Nicoll Quotes
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn't go through life expecting it, which is very good advice.
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Over a hundred million Americans reject the findings of the Warren Commission, whose report at least ninety-nine out of a hundred have never read.
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It's rewarding to be recognized by the fans and other players for my abilities and to be able to represent the Arizona Cardinals fans from around the world.
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I refuse to dress 'hot' for Halloween, 'cause I always have to have makeup and hair and look cute for my job. So on Halloween, I either go gory or weird or funny.
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Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
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My real name is Joe Kennedy, but if you live in Massachusetts, you can't sign 'Joe Kennedy.' So, back in 1957, I stuck the X on my name to be different from those people in Hyannis Port.
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'Never, never!' whispered she. 'What we did had a consecration of its own.'
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After a lifetime of living on hope because there is nothing but hope, one loses the taste for victory.
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As truly as the mystic, the scientist is following a light; and it is not a false or an inferior light.
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And since the day I left Milwaukee,Lyncheburg and Bourbon, FranceBeen makin' a fool out of folksJust like you,And helpin' white people dance.I am medicine and I am poison.I can help you up or make you fall.You had some of the best timesYou'll never remember with me...Alcohol.
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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage-market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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Many people are allergic to process and structure because it causes traumatic flashbacks of working at BigCo and suffering through bureaucracy for bureaucracy's sake.
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If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.
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A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, 'Oh, this thought is just occurring to me right now' - and speaking sincerely.
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I'm not dogmatic.
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Smell can conjure up memories for me stronger than any other sense. Especially childhood memories. Perhaps because you were that much shorter and therefore closer to the ground and its smells.
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Imagine a glorious full moon coming over the tops of the spruce, big and yellow, shedding a mysterious light on everything... the moonlight had colour, you could see to paint and be able to appreciate the colour of things.
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Reading is the last act of secular prayer.
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