Nicholas Lea (Nicholas Christopher Herbert) Quotes
It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
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I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.
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You question yourself all the time as a footballer. You have to focus on the positives.
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Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
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I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the North, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the day-time you felt that you had got high up, near to the sun, but the early mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were cold.
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‘As a sleuth you are poor. You couldn’t detect a bass-drum in a telephone-booth.’
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Several particular maxims... are as powerful, although false, in carrying away belief, as those the most true.
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My main goal is to be the No. 1 American and the No. 1 player in the world. If an American is on top of the leader board every week, it will bring more people into the game of golf.
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Nobody wants to hear me rap.
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You're going to hurt, yes. You're going to have tweaks and problems. But you're a football player; you can play through those.
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I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me.
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I could have 10 kids or be boxing until I'm 40.
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I believe we can and should have it all. Lower deficits but higher spending. More peace with a bigger military that goes off and kills terrorists and whatnot. A cleaner environment without forcing SUVs off the road.
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When I was younger, I went through a lot of different phases. One day I'd be punk rock, and the next I would be tomboyish, and then I would be really girly. I was so weird. My two best friends and I were just crazy and goofy!
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You never know what you find once you really get going.
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I don't think I'd want to sit down and listen to people's stories all day long.
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So, I was sitting there and I watched 'Paranormal Activity' and I was like, 'Boy, white people do dumb stuff in movies.' So I was like, 'Why don't they just leave the house... What if paranormal activity happened to a black couple?'
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What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.
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I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote 'In Contempt' was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it.
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It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.
