James Nicoll Quotes

At some point when I wasn’t paying attention, comedic genocide just stopped working for me. This is a shame because so much fantasy and SF depends on genocide as positive plot element. This trifling oddity of taste must have robbed me of hours of morally equivocal entertainment.

James Nicoll

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• My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Parents
  • Passion

• Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Culture
  • Know
  • Irony

• I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • God
  • Christian
  • Fight

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • You
  • Football
  • Games

• I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • See
  • Back
  • Superstar

• Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Long
  • Live
  • Why

• The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Myself
  • Care
  • Writer

• Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • True
  • Beautiful
  • Imagination

• My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Husband

• For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Great
  • Freedom
  • Security

• I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • School
  • She
  • Friends

• Belief is not restricted to a brief affirmation based on imitation; rather, it has degrees and stages of development. It is like a seed growing into a fully grown, fruit-bearing tree; like the sun's image in a mirror or in a drop of water to its images on the sea's surface and to the sun itself.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Growing
  • Water
  • Sun

• I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Music
  • Always
  • Try

• All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Change
  • Democracy

• I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Three
  • Take

• I'm still so young, so I feel like people have wanted to keep me in a 'no-makeup' fresh type of look - sometimes artists are a little afraid of really putting the makeup on me.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Me
  • Makeup

• Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Character
  • Life Is A

• We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• Yet the basic fact remains: we live in a world marked by violence, and if we want to protect others, we sometimes have to be willing to fight.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Violence
  • Fight
  • Protect

• I've got my bag of goodies; I've got flaws coming out of every pore, but that's part of who I am. A bit of the process of life is learning to live with those things and accept yourself regardless. Maybe try to become a better person, either because of - or in spite of - those things.

  

  John Hensley
  • Life
  • Live
  • Learning

• I want to be the healthiest, best Emma that I can be, and I know that by going to treatment that's what's going to happen, and I'm going to continue on that positive road.

  

  Emma Kenney
  • Positive
  • Road

• At some point when I wasn’t paying attention, comedic genocide just stopped working for me. This is a shame because so much fantasy and SF depends on genocide as positive plot element. This trifling oddity of taste must have robbed me of hours of morally equivocal entertainment.

  

  James Nicoll
  • Attention
  • Positive