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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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 wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.
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To be honest, I'm really more of a jeans and T-shirt kind of a girl.
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I say no wealth is worth my life.
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I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.
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When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.
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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.
