Nick McDonell (Robert Nicholas "Nick" McDonell) Quotes
In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.
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We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.
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From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.
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People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.
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I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious and wanted to do more, always, than I was able. I don't think, when I was playing, that I was ever happy - beginning at 4 o'clock any afternoon.
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My writing has changed a lot. From 16 to 19, I've changed a lot. My kind of writing in the beginning was very observational; now it's grown very personal for me. I use it as a diary in many ways.
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In the beginning of the war, Southern women wanted their men to leave - in droves, and as quickly as possible. They were the Confederate Army's most persuasive and effective recruitment officers, shaming anyone who shirked his duty to fight.
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I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.
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I'm not even close to where I want to be; it's just a little mini step on the way. This is only the beginning.
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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
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We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny... The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witchhunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist.
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Turbulence is the beginning of a fruitful process of transformation.
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Take control of your image, your branding, from the beginning. It even includes how you dress, since people judge you that way.
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I love that there's a beginning, middle and end to a film and you can craft what the whole journey is going to look like.
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By the beginning of the 20th century, the debate about monetary policy and the nation's financial system had been going on for over a century. Increasingly, the shortcomings of the existing system were causing too much harm to ignore.
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I think when Kevin Nash put himself on the booking committee and then gave me my first loss, that was beginning of the end.
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I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention.
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The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators.
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In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative.
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I'm sure there was some part of his soul was intrinsically happy, but he probably had to go through some permutations to really get that to blossom. I'm sure Dad had his challenges, but I think that joy was there from the beginning and he had to find a way to make his life support that and express that.
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The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.
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As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was going to win, and I guess that made an impression on me.
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I was a reporter for Gannett and the 'N.Y. Daily News' covering Gov. Mario Cuomo's dance with presidential races in both 1988 and 1991.
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In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.
