Nick Lowe (Nicholas Drain Lowe) Quotes
If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world domination.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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I wake when my wife wakes, at 7:30 A.M. I'd like to sleep longer, but she has to go off to work, and I'd be plagued with guilt.
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I like fighters who come to fight.
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My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
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Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
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I've got nothing to prove
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I’ve known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.
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We certainly had our share of failures early on and worked on a bunch of canceled sitcoms, which were very helpful in learning.
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There's already a world of evidence that life on Earth is unique and intelligently crafted.
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If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world domination.
