Nick Denton (Nicholas Guido Anthony Denton) Quotes
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.
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A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.
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It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
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I like to pour my wines for people. I watch their eyes, I can see what they'll like. Most people say they don't like dry wine because they haven't had a dry wine that's clean and fruity, instead of a big, oaky thing.
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Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
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You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.
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I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.
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I would put myself towards left of center.
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I think a great first date would be something different... not like movies or going to dinner... going rock climbing together... doing an activity and then going to dinner, so that you guys share an experience, and then you have something to talk about, and it's not the same old thing.
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I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.
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Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results.
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I have so many great memories of the Allman Brothers early days. It was an incredible time.
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My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.
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Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.
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It seems strange to say this, but it is true: Coming back to Vegas to work is like going on vacation for me.
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It's my policy not to review funerals.
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Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.
