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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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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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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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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I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
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Even 'Lord of the Rings' had dwarf-tossing jokes in it. It's like, 'Really?'
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By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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I have to accept risk as a racing driver.
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Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult.
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It's not that fun to just play a villain, without any reasoning behind it.
