Nick Cannon (Nicholas Scott Cannon) Quotes
I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in me, I guess.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
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There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.
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It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
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You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.
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Ninety-nine people out of a hundred have not seriously considered what they mean by the term 'exist' nor how a thing qualifies itself to be labelled real.
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Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.
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Being the everyman in the writing room helps a lot: you have to be a real collaborator and selfless, and not have ego when you walk in there. That's the antithesis of the artist mentality.
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I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.
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I think a nice romantic dinner should be saved for when you and the girl you're dating or seeing have something special and it's a more special occasion.
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I was convinced that I was going to be onstage for the rest of my life.
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It's important to be an ally. You don't have to be a black woman to think we should have more black women in tech.
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I'm not seeking out genre films, but this just came my way, and Miramax was good enough to add a role for me because we wanted the chance to work together.
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Both sides should demand a speedy trial.
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As son of a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was.
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Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.
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The Democrats take the black vote for granted so they don't have to appeal to anything... I haven't heard Mrs. Clinton talk about the urban pathologies in the American ghetto that are the result of progressive urban policies - failed policies.
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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
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There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.
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I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in me, I guess.
