Nick Swardson (Nicholas Roger Swardson) Quotes
I was always pretty good at adapting to my situations. My act was never that inside, where it was like, "Okay, they're either going to get this or they're not."
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
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Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
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The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly - without evasiveness or equivocation.
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Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!
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Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
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Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.
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There's still people who think me being married to a sista is an act. What, you think I'd make that up for a persona?
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Peace in the Middle East isn't going to be created by another war or violent act on the other side.
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They (the publishers) would be ecstatic, I just refuse to. You can't repeat a great act.
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I think that we as humans have this intuition that we should be afraid, in order to protect us from things, or be afraid in order to prepare us against things. In most emotional situations you cannot prepare, so it is really just a waste of energy. I just realised all of this - that being scared and putting my body into a serious stress situation - was actually hurting me more and wasn't making me feel healthier and was actually making me sicker when I was dealing with my disease.
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My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'
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My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy it, to learn about it, to write about it, to talk to others about it.
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I was always pretty good at adapting to my situations. My act was never that inside, where it was like, "Okay, they're either going to get this or they're not."
