Nicholas Lea (Nicholas Christopher Herbert) Quotes
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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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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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.
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The main cause of Europe's deep fall - the losses of inclusion, job satisfaction and wage growth - is the devastating slowdown of productivity that began in the late 1990s and struck large swaths of the continent. It holds down the growth of wages rates, and it depresses employment.
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We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
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I like Disney stuff. No-one looks at 'Toy Story' and says,' Oh, that's just for kids.' Why is it that games can only appeal to a certain audience, but movies and books - I mean, how many adults read 'Harry Potter?'
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There's no alternative to Catalan independence.
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It's true that I'm even better than I could have imagined, both in football and in my private life!
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In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.
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I'm not thuggin' for me, I'm thuggin' for my family, I pay all the bills, I feed my whole family, wrong or right, I do and I can't stop.
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There was never a moment when I was like, 'I'm going to enter the public conversation on the importance of female nudity.'
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If I'm not working and getting my makeup done, that's my chance to do a hair mask and a face mask and my plucking and waxing and all of that.
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The truth is that most small businesses will not succeed and you need to be emotionally prepared for this.
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You've got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that's how you get your experience.
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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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You get this really cool groove when you're playing just piano, bass, and drums where everyone's sort of feeling each other's space, which is the only way to put it, but it really is true, and everyone's sort of sitting in their own pocket. It's kind of jazz-like.
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God is down in front. He is in the tomorrows. It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us.
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It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it.
