Nick Carter (Nickolas Gene Carter) Quotes
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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I am who I am.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
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Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
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I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.
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I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.
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If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.
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It seems to me every one of us is doing something meaningful for this world.
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Shah Rukh Khan started his career with television, and now he is a superstar. You can't generalise and say that TV actors can't make it to films.
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I get wonderful letters from kids and teachers. I must have the best readers in the world.
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My favourite restaurant is the Thai Corner Cafe on St Paul's Road. We go there all the time. I shouldn't really mention it - I don't want it to be chock-a-block.
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Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.
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You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.
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Experimental novels are sometimes terribly clever and very seldom read. But the story that appeals to the child sitting on your knee is the one that satisfies the curiosity we all have about what happened then, and then, and then. This is the final restriction put on the technique of telling a story. A basic thing called story is built into the human condition. It's what we are; it's something to which we react.
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Sometimes I shut up cause I'm afraid I don't have anything interesting to tell anyway
