Nick Johnson (Nicholas Robert "Nick" Johnson) Quotes
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I have to keep inspiration close to me. I'm always on YouTube looking at the greats or anything that can give me the spark that I need.
Earl Thomas -
I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.
Ernest Hemingway -
The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses.
Walter Sickert -
To say that it is not our fault does not relieve us of responsibility. However, we may not have polluted the air, but we need to take responsibility, along with others, for cleaning it up. Each of us needs to look at our own behavior. Am I perpetuating and reinforcing the negative messages so pervasive in our culture, or am I seeking to challenge them?
Beverly Daniel Tatum -
Because I was a chemistry student and was never supposed to be a musician, I always felt like I was an outsider looking at music going "Why is this interesting to me? Why should I be doing this?" and I never felt like I was a natural musician. It came into my life, kind of, as a conceptual problem and I think all my pieces are, in a way, looking at some issue and sometimes veering toward an inside baseball model of classical music.
David Lang -
Kids love to be silly, they love to laugh, so I think it was natural for my kids to like the sort of books that I write - and it's the only kinds of books I'm capable of writing.
Michael Ian Black
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Children are primed to take in something of more moral value than they're getting. I know I'm blowing my own horn here, but 'E.T.' had value to it in terms of the feeling about yourself that you walked away with.
Melissa Mathison -
Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.
Nicholas Lea -
Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air.
Robert Frost -
It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.
Sarah Dessen -
Without a rope there is no fear beacuse to fall is unthinkable.
Catherine Destivelle -
In a world of moral certainty, the unthinkable becomes permissible.
Cullen Murphy
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It was just as bad the second time. We just seemed to be out of sync, a step slow. It wasn't just one possession, but continuously.
Andy Kennedy -
Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable... unimaginable... unspeakable.
Paul Keating -
Socialism without democracy is unthinkable.
Karl Kautsky -
I think no-one was surprised to hear that Janis Joplin was dead. She seemed to be living up all of her energy that she had to give in just a few years. Now you listen to covers of her songs by various women, and it's pale in comparison.
Michael Wadleigh -
Thomas A. Edison was once reluctantly persuaded by his wife to attend one of the big social functions of the season in New York. At last the inventor managed to escape the crowd of people vying for his attention, and sat alone unnoticed in a corner. Edison kept looking at his watch with a resigned expression on his face. A friend edged near to him unnoticed and heard the inventor mutter to himself with a sigh, "If there were only a dog here!"
Edmund Fuller -
I saw myself as a leader of the community, not a member. I had no idea what a messed-up perspective that was at the time.
Hank Green
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It's rare that there's a role that requires an Australian accent.
Heath Ledger -
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
Nilsson -
A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable.
Nick Johnson