Nick Cannon (Nicholas Scott Cannon) Quotes
I always try to be optimistic, but not to the point where I'm getting on people's nerves.
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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Humans have 3 percent human error, and a lot of companies can't afford to be wrong 3 percent of the time anymore, so we close that 3 percent gap with some of the technologies. The AI we've developed doesn't make mistakes.
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To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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People want you to fail.
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There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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I've always been impelled to say the truth. When I was 14, in 1954, I already wrote a gay novel, though I'd never read one. I felt that life handed me a great subject, gay life, that had scarcely been examined, and I was impelled to record it in all its strange detail.
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I love anything quiz related.
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I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.
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Some people may have their doubts about me. But I feel like there's no shot too hard for me to take.
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The Constitution was made for ordinary people.
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Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
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For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.
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I used to look at a pint of Haagen-Dazs and call it a serving size.
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Anybody I grew up with in this area - they're still a mate. Lots of people in the Prahran area gave me my first go. Sold me my trucks on... I don't know, 100 deposit and 100 a month. Without the support of those guys, you'd still sort of be driving a truck.
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I just want to focus on the positive things in my life.
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For me, being able to be vulnerable is difficult, but it's just something that I feel comfortable doing. I need to fully understand why, the thought-process behind the character and I have to believe it. That comes from a lot of preparation.
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I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.
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There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls out and turns gray that you either have to be able to handle or not. What you can't do is try to force yourself into roles that you could have played or would have played ten years earlier.
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I always try to be optimistic, but not to the point where I'm getting on people's nerves.
