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 was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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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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Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
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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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I think we do have to take off the gloves in some areas, but within balance, and at the right time and the right way, and for the right reason and with full understanding of what the consequences of that might be.
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You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up. These are things that are okay for cartoon characters to do.
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I will say this: One thing I did see in my reporting again and again is that the Obamas themselves are much more involved in handling stories than is usually known.
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It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.
