Jonathan Nolan Quotes
One of the things with our show is posing a lot of questions, but getting a lot of answers too.
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Salesmen always need something to sell.
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I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
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Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.
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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
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Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
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Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
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Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.
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Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
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There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
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I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.
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If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.
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I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.
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The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
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It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.
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Whenever I've been in Scotland I've had such amazing support, and the love from Scottish fans has always been great.
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It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.
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When we start fighting crime by any means necessary we become guilty of the same hypocrisy as law enforcement agencies throughout history that break the rules to get the villains, and so become villains themselves.
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It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
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People expect comedy from me but I am not just a stand-up comedian anymore. I act on stage, host 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' and also conduct interviews on my show. I have grown as a person and an artiste.
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
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One of the things with our show is posing a lot of questions, but getting a lot of answers too.
