Jeff Nichols Quotes
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	I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.   
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	I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.   
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	Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.   
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	Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.   
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	It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.   
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	The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.   
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	I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.   
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	My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!   
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	Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!   
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	Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.   
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	I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.   
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	We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.   
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	I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.   
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	GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.   
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	It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.   
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	People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.   
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	A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.   
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	I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.   
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	The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.   
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	It was he who impressed, time and again, the necessity of singing as nature intended, and - I remember - he constantly warned, don't let the public know that you work. So I went slowly. I never forced the voice.   
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	I don't know that movies are important. But I know that stories are important. Movies may disappear. They've only been around, for God's sake, for the last hundred years... I think that it's the need to tell stories, and that people need to be told stories. It's the old sitting around the fire, you know.   
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	The real world is horrible.   
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	Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they're painted, could be art. With music, you're a little bit limited, of course, because it's only audio.   
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	I know how to write a movie. I know how to direct a movie.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					