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 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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I took dance from a very early age, although my first recital, I remember refusing to go onstage. I think I was three. It's funny because that stage was also my high school theater stage.
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Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With the help of Allah, we will proceed forward in this promising national process within the natural progress of the life cycle and the development of people and nation.
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Sometimes we're tone-deaf in Washington, and we listen only to ourselves. We do not hear the cry of people who want answers, want action, want protection, and have some darn good ideas as to how to provide it if only we would listen.
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That's the weird thing about not being married - you can't get regular kissing; you can't be guaranteed of it, and that's a great shame.
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Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?'
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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.
