Nickelson Wooster (Nick Wooster) Quotes

I truly find inspiration everywhere. I always tell students, and young people starting out, that the single most important skill, next to listening, is to pay attention. You never know where inspiration will strike.

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• Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Culture
  • Know
  • Irony

• It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Artist

• I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Fashion
  • Bit

• Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Heart
  • Job

• You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Story

• As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Party
  • Singing
  • Child

• Being a writer - even a best-selling one - is usually not anywhere near as public as being a movie star, at least not when I'm out in 'real life' like this. Not that I don't use what fame I have, every chance I get, to help sell more books.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Movie

• Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Creation

• Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Time
  • Work
  • God

• Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion, it manifests itself as frustration and becomes a fertile recruiting ground for extremism.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • World
  • Religion
  • Frustration

• Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Life
  • Door
  • Walking

• The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.

  

  Allan Houston
  • Life
  • Real
  • Character

• Playing live is great, but it's not a creative thing, really. It's a reproductive thing.

  

  Bernard Sumner New Order
  • Great
  • Live

• I didn't just grow up with horses; I wanted to be one.

  

  Clare Balding
  • Up

• We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children and not just let them roam the streets.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • People
  • Children
  • Dog

• The Scottish are not shy when it comes to expressing themselves.

  

  Ken Stott

• A lot of young actors look up to me, and I wouldn't trade that for any money in the world. I don't want to lose their respect and be a hypocrite.

  

  James Caan
  • Up
  • World
  • Money

• I have two really great best friends that are the only people I hang out with. I keep a close circle.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • People
  • Great
  • Friends

• The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage.

  

  Jefferson Mays

• I know how it feels to be a singer who wants to get discovered.

  

  John Roger Stephens

• I did my New York debut at 21. It was 'On the Town' at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home.

  

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson
  • Home
  • Theatre

• Much of the geographical work of the past hundred years... has either explicitly or implicitly taken its inspiration from biology, and in particular Darwin. Many of the original Darwinians, such as Hooker, Wallace, Huxley, Bates, and Darwin himself, were actively concerned with geographical exploration, and it was largely facts of geographical distribution in a spatial setting which provided Darwin with the germ of his theory.

  

  David Stoddart
  • Science
  • Inspiration
  • Hundred

• I truly find inspiration everywhere. I always tell students, and young people starting out, that the single most important skill, next to listening, is to pay attention. You never know where inspiration will strike.

  

  Nickelson Wooster
  • Attention
  • Inspiration
  • Skill