Nicholas James Bates (Nick Rhodes) Quotes
I love pop culture. I love to be inside of it, and step outside and look back in.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
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To some degree, we're all thinking about the same things. It's the zeitgeist. The trick, in a way, as a writer, is to hope that your interests in some sense link up with the culture around you.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible.
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I love pop culture. I love to be inside of it, and step outside and look back in.
