Nick Nolte (Nicholas King Nolte) Quotes
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I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
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I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.
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I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
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If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films.
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The appointment of judges to the higher judiciary cannot be the sole domain of a few members of the higher judiciary. This turf must be shared.
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My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something that's old, and you really do want to mix those styles, then you have to add something that's obviously modern with it. You can't put a kind of a mediocre thing in the middle.
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I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
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First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally one becomes photography.
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My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.
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With 'California,' editors were reading it, and fast, and others were emailing my agent to request it. Ultimately, there were a few editors interested in the book, and it sold at auction about two weeks after the submission process started. I couldn't believe it!
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It's weird, when I go back to San Francisco, the few times that I've done shows there since leaving, it still feels like I live there. It's very, very strange for me. That's where my daughter was born, at UCSF. I have this huge attachment to San Francisco. It's like a love affair.
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For the prevision is allied Unto the thing so signified; Or say, the foresight that awaits Is the same Genius that creates.
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The master enjoined not austerity, but moderation. If we truly enjoyed things, he claimed, we would be spontaneously moderate. Asked why he was so opposed to ascetical practices, he replied, 'Because they produce pleasure-haters who always become people-haters - rigid and cruel.'
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I think whenever you have a common goal with someone, you're going to bond. It's really hard to get two people together and be like, 'Hey guys, why don't you just bond!' But if you say, 'Listen, I need you guys to build this house, or I need you to do this or I need you to make this movie,' you'll get to work and you'll get close.
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I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.
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I think when you really love something, you notice the minutiae.
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Primum quaerite bona animi; caetera aut aderunt, aut non oberunt
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
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There's no greater purpose than service to others.
