Nicholas James Bates (Nick Rhodes) Quotes
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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I like to do Pilates.
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Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.
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I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.
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Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.
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I don't know about you, but I love going on trips - especially with my family.
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Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.
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My first proper kitchen was this funny little club that we set up in Mercer Street in Covent Garden. It got shut down. Then I worked at a club in Notting Hill.
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I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.
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I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.
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I had always been a tomboy - I still am, at heart.
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Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors.
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I'm a big fan of the 'Harry Potter' movies and 'The Lord of the Rings' films.
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Humanism was not invented by man, but by a snake who suggested that the quest for autonomy might be a good idea.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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There's been a long lineage of a stranger in a strange land, whether it's 'E.T.,' 'Starman,' or other movies about trying to connect with humanity; it struck me that's what a Superman story really is.
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I think maybe my attention span is too long to tweet.
