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
  • Political
  • Reality
  • 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

• '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

• I don't tweet very much. I still believe in the mystery of an artist. I believe in going out when I'm ready to sell my product. A lot of artists are out there every day. But I remember the Julio Iglesiases, the Jose Joses - and it was about the music.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Remember

• I just think of myself as a writer. Yes, I'm a woman. And I'm a writer. The main challenge is that I like to write stories about young women, and society doesn't place much of a premium on young women's stories. And I think that's why I gravitate towards it. I really honor that, and I treasure that time, and they should be given that respect.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Time
  • Women
  • Why

• It's weird because I am accessible to people on Twitter, and I can choose to read good things or mean things, and people can reach out to me directly and tell me how much they hate me or love the song. It's a very strange new paradigm as an artist to find yourself among this kind of connectivity.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • People
  • Good
  • Song

• Dealing with corruption and staying calm is a talent most of us in India have mastered and learnt to live with.

  

  Arshad Warsi
  • Calm
  • Corruption
  • Live With

• The scene is never really about moving the story forward on 'Breaking Bad.' That's the functional veneer of the scene, but it's always about what's going on with the characters.

  

  George Mastras
  • Bad
  • Moving
  • Characters

• As the 2016 campaign has graphically illustrated, Trump doesn't treat rivals gently. Testifying before a congressional committee in 1993, he began with his rote protestations of friendship.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Trump
  • Friendship

• 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