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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One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
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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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My worst investment decision so far is to lend money to friends. So far, it has all come to zero.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.
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There's no judgment on bands that continue on who aren't popular; some people get enjoyment out of it. I'm just not one of those people.
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Playing live is very exhausting, which is partly why I feel so tired today. But I've always wanted to live like that. I'd rather feel the experience than to be sort of feeling something in between and dull and numb. I love feeling the highs and the lows, it makes life far more exciting.
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It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.
