Nick Bantock Quotes
I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the writing came out.
Quotes to Explore
-
Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
-
The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
-
Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
-
Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
-
There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
-
Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
-
I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
-
I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.
-
I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
-
'House of Cards' opened some doors. I've been able to tackle some diverse stories and characters.
-
And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.
-
When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not.
-
Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.
-
Beijing cannot sit by and let her North Korean ally be bombed, nor can it allow U.S. and South Korean forces to defeat the North, bring down the regime, and unite the peninsula, with U.S. and South Korean soldiers sitting on the Yalu, as they did in 1950 before Mao ordered his Chinese army into Korea.
-
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
-
I heard your suitcase say goodbye
-
I was always more of a Lydia Deeds than a Disney Princess, so anything offbeat like that, I would love to be a part of.
-
An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
-
The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.
-
I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.
-
I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
-
My best friends are still the ones I first attached myself to when I went to school because, all of a sudden, I was leaving the rather pampered and occasionally very annoying world of having three older sisters to go to a male-dominated world.
-
More than a pleasant surprise, Danny Schmidt was no less than a revelation to me. And that's not a word I use lightly.
-
I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the writing came out.
