Nicholas James Bates (Nick Rhodes) Quotes
I love pop culture. I love to be inside of it, and step outside and look back in.
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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My dad taught me to kiteboard when I was 13, and around the same time, I happened to just fall into being an extra on a set and fell in love with acting and making movies.
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Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
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We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun.
Gail Devers -
I think, more than anything else, my dog's death has made me grow up. I find myself thinking about the world in a more serious way.
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Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?
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I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.
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The portability of the book, like that of the easel-painting, added much to the new culture of individualism. (p. 233)
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Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.
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It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced.
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Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.
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I love pop culture. I love to be inside of it, and step outside and look back in.
