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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As adults, when we attend to something in the world we are vividly conscious of that particular thing, and we shut out the surrounding world. The classic metaphor is that attention is like a spotlight, illuminating one part of the world and leaving the rest in darkness.
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It is a function of creative men to perceive the relations between thoughts, or things, or forms of expression that may seem utterly different, and to be able to combine them into some new form. Britten's Nocturne, for example, which unifies musically a group of poems by different hands, is a notable example of his power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
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There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.
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Am I an Israeli? That's a good question.
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It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.
