Jeff Nichols Quotes
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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People come over, and we watch things like 'The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.' I have a hot tub. Everybody puts on a bathing suit and we splash around.
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But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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If you don't keep learning and growing, you're going to stagnate.
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You have to be willing to risk things; otherwise, somebody else will put you out of business.
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My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs.
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I naively thought I would quit television writing, move up to Seattle, my novel would come out, and then I'd have a novel writing career, and so I found myself really stuck in this very poisonous self-pitying state and felt like I'd never write again. And I blamed Seattle for that.
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I like scripts. I spend a lot of time writing them.
