Nick Moran Quotes
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Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
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The main thing is to know something and to say it.
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To say that we mutually agree to coercion is not to say that we are required to enjoy it, or even to pretend we enjoy it.
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They can say I have an opinion about something.
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I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.
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Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
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I say accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. If you don't accessorize, someone else will.
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Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.
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I blog because I have something to say.
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If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a prince, and he says, 'To be or not to be.'"
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My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.
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So I would say Reagan was the best, and certainly Clinton the worst.
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It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not.
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My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.
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Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.
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The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.
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The various levels of problems and issues are interwoven, so that solving any one of them without simultaneously addressing the others rarely works for long.
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As my mum still candidly says, I was the runt of the litter.
