Jeff Nichols Quotes
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I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
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In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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I think a woman looks best in a sari.
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I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until they can marry and adopt, like anyone else.
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I was a dyslexic kid.
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You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.
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The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.
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A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.
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I gravitate to whatever looks good on me and whatever maakes me feel sexy.
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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.
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Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.
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I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story that we haven't seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross 'cause she's an icon. I'm salivating to do that.
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It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.
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To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.
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We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.
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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
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My biggest mentor is myself because I've had to study, so that's been my biggest influence.
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I wrote 'Mud' for Matthew McConaughey and had never met him.
