Nick Swardson (Nicholas Roger Swardson) Quotes
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.
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You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
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To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.
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Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
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I didn't start out with a spectacular movie. Many people think you don't have to go from nothing to the top; they think you start at the top.
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This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
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I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them.
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I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.
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Being a fan of the business for years and wanting to be an actor for years, I knew, if ever the opportunity came for me, I would already know what to expect. I know what comes along with it. The best thing I can do is take it all in and go with the flow.
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As a newcomer, you know, you don't come out the gate as a singer and try to compare with Judy Garland.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.
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Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
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I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.
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Babies are like the smallest, drunkest people you know.
