Nicholas Haslam (Nicholas Ponsonby Haslam) Quotes
I don't feel I have to charm somebody, I feel I want to know them; it's a different thing.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.
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I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.
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It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
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There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.
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How you make others feel about themselves, says a lot about you.
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The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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I think we need to push harder, we the Democrats, because it's an open door for the Republicans - prosperity centers.
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I don't feel I have to charm somebody, I feel I want to know them; it's a different thing.
