Nick Saban (Nicholas Lou Saban Jr.) Quotes
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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For 'A Little Night Music,' I did try to get little bit more beefed up for that because I thought that would help me carry myself around the stage in that character.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.
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My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family.
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Russian hacking of the DNC is a problem, not a scandal.
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The real prize is never delivered by memory or by imagination, but by something above them.
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On the day that you were bornThe angels got togetherAnd decided to create a dream come trueSo they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of goldAnd starlight in your eyes of blue.
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All our symbols have the same purpose; words are merely the symbols we use most commonly. The function of words in human thought is to stand for things which are not present to the senses, and allow the mind to manipulate them-things, concepts, ideas, everything that does not have a physical reality in front of us now.
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Measure a man by his actions fully, from the beginning to the end. Don't take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I'm about, because you know better than that.
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Music’s playin’ up and down the blockMostly Christian, Blues, Country, Folk, and Southern RockIt’s our little piece of paradise way out here in the woodsThere is always somethin’ goin’ on down in the trailerhood.
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This is what we believe.
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I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time.
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Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web.
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Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials.
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Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
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I don't take anything for granted with nationals. I can't count out anyone or know what anyone is doing. I have to prepare the best I can, that's all I can control. I don't consider myself to have anything on a platter.
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We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it isgood-and that is the real theater-totranscend them in the manner of play, bymeans of games and irony; it is good to be dirty and bearded, to have long hair,to look like a girl when one is a boy (and vice versa); one must put "inplay," show up, transform and reversethe systems which quietly order us about.
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All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.
