Nicholas Lea (Nicholas Christopher Herbert) Quotes

It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy.

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• We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Self-Love

• Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Truth
  • Passion
  • Laugh

• My family is a praying family, a Christian family.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Family
  • Christian
  • Praying

• I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Up
  • Book
  • Know

• Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Reality
  • Political
  • Color

• My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Live
  • Children
  • Grandfather

• When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Moon
  • Going
  • Doctors

• When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Thought
  • Story
  • Grandmother

• I continued to suffer from anxiety and obsessive thoughts, although the thoughts stopped centering on hell. I moved into an ashram called the Himalayan Institute after college and studied meditation, which made an enormous difference.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • College
  • Thoughts
  • Anxiety

• I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.

  

  Ted Dexter
  • May
  • Think
  • Down

• My private life stays private.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Life
  • Private Life
  • Stays

• I actually enjoy Britney Spears. Not as a singer but as a performer. I just enjoy watching her. I think, 'You are so brave.'

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Think
  • Enjoy
  • Brave

• I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Feeling
  • Storm
  • Grit

• For my own health, I thought it was better to eat a plant based diet. I'm going to be 60 soon and I have boundless energy and I feel really good, so I'm all for it.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Good
  • Energy
  • Health

• 'Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved,' asserted the Tin Man. 'Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • May
  • Beautiful
  • Action

• I have seen motions of the air so furious that they have carried, mixed up in their course, the largest trees of the forest and whole roofs of great palaces, and I have seen the same fury bore a hole with a whirling movement digging out a gravel pit, and carrying gravel, sand and water more than half a mile through the air.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Up
  • Great
  • Water

• Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

  

  Learned Hand
  • Justice
  • Brotherhood

• Habla con su propia palabra sólo la herida.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Sebald, Naipaul, and Joyce are three of my biggest influences, all of them for their formal freedom and their ability to create mood. So those comparisons are immensely flattering and, of course, unearned.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Influence
  • Ability
  • Mood

• It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all.

  

  Arto Lindsay
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Knowledge

• People ask 'How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?' Well, when you're doing a commercial you don't have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great; it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the film.

  

  Mike Mills
  • People
  • Giving
  • Film

• I have no trouble being a good dude because that's what I am.

  

  Trevor George Smith Jr.
  • Good

• With clothes, I like mixing what different designers do until it becomes a personal expression of how I'm feeling that day.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Different
  • Feeling
  • Clothes

• It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy.

  

  Nicholas Lea
  • Interesting
  • Audience
  • Characters