Judd Nelson Quotes
I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.
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People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.
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The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.
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I've been happily dedicated to the same woman for a number of years. I never even look at other women.
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I love India.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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Sports is like a war without the killing.
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When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'
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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
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It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going to the theatre. The downside, I suppose, is that you put it out there, and people are invited to like it or loathe it.
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I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.
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If you drop a line in the theatre, you can usually find a way round it. But you can't do that as easily on television - you're in the hands of too many people.
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It takes a strong character for a person to say, 'I can't do it.
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I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.
