Jeff Nichols Quotes
My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.
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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
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'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don't know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn't go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn't go upstairs by myself. I couldn't sleep.
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There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.
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Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.
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I don't think cricket is a game that people who have never played or been involved in understand the excitement. It's a game that is full of excitement, because cricket lovers follow the game and understand the basic principles and rules. They become connoisseurs of the game.
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To be lovingly present through the primal, naked pain that marks aspects of birth, and to be lovingly present through the difficult, heart-wrenching ending that marks aspects of death is to learn about life and love. Fear may be strong but love is stronger. Learning how to love includes learning how to make room for and transform fear. Learning how to live involves learning how to die. Love alone is the most potent power illuminating the breath's journey in between these thresholds. Love is the key. Love is the dance.
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My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.
