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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He shoots the ball extremely well from the perimeter, which will help our low-post players, ... He is a veteran who brings both playoff experience and leadership.
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Despite my mum being from a small village in the middle of a forest, I'm not a country person. I don't like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers. But sometimes being police means holding your breath and fondling a pig.
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We need to have a better balance between a deliberate strategy and staying open. Because in the end, most of us end up being successful in a career that we never imagined we would be in at the beginning.
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With fiction, I tend to get to my desk and start writing. Poetry I write in my head, often while walking, so that my poems have an organic quality, hopefully.
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I wrote 'Mud' for Matthew McConaughey and had never met him.
