Jonathan Nolan Quotes
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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I'm tired of living in a police state.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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It came so soon and so fast. It's just overwhelming. Every time I think about it, I just can't believe it.
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The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It's the ability to love each other. That's the only solution I see.
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I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.
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The goal can never be reached unless a man makes his mind strong, and firmly resolves that he must realise God in this very birth, nay, this very moment.
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I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'
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I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.
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She walks-the lady of my delight-A shepherdess of sheep.Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white;She keeps them from the steep
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A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.
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Optimization tells us precisely how to diversify the portfolio, whether I should have 12% in semiconductors or 4% in biotech, etc., and it literally tells me how to diversify not only the industry groups but the stocks.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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If you're good at something, never do it for free.
