Nicholas Ray (Raymond Nicholas Kienzle Jr) Quotes
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As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for 'Iron Giant,' and I'm not even on the screen.
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I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States.
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Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
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You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.
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Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
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Our blight is ideologies - they are the long-expected Antichrist!
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A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. (Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the first indication of the scale that we need in the theory of probability.) (4.464)
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We now know, without any shred of uncertainty, that billions of rands of public resources have been diverted into the pockets of a few.
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As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.
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In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much.
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Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.
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This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
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I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
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I usually wake up at 7, 7:15, without an alarm. I hate the sound of an alarm.
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The only purpose of customer service is to change feelings.
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We didn't have any goal set, but we knew we had to work with someone who had a complete, almost encyclopedic knowledge of music. We wanted to make an album that sounded completely different but still had the heart and soul of the band. It's still The Strokes, but it's a very different form of The Strokes.
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Film recognizes neither time nor space, only the limits of man's imagination
