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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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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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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Work is a wonderful regulator of mind and body. I forget all sorrow, grief, bitterness, and I even ignore them altogether in the joy of working.
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You're the sort of enemy your enemy must love.
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I want 'Vogue' to feel like a shop that you're not scared to walk into, one that's quite welcoming.
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I spent every bit of my money to try and get a Mickey Mantle card, and I don't have one. Growing up in Oklahoma, Mickey Mantle was my idol. And here I am, and I'd go pick cotton to have enough money, and I'd buy all of these packs, and I'd chew all of the gum, and I'd never find a Mickey Mantle card.
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We cannot have a system that everything can be passed on to the final consumer in the garb of cost being recovered without being sensitive to their own problems and affordability.
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Man lives measuring, and he’s the measure of nothing. Not even of himself.
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I wrote 'Mud' for Matthew McConaughey and had never met him.
