Nickolas Ashford Quotes

I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.

Nickolas Ashford

• Running
• Sweat
• Microphones
• Pouring

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• As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Stories

• Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation - then we should worry.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Worry
  • Innovation
  • Inspire

• Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Remember
  • Political
  • Moral

• Anytime there was an award show, it was a ritual where me and my mom would sit around and watch with my friends. We would make desserts and buy chips and popcorn and see what our favorite performances of the night were.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Mom

• I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Always
  • Enjoy
  • First-Person

• It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Single

• Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Cooking
  • Short

• The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

  

  Ian Schrager
  • Time
  • Music
  • Kid

• Coming into high school, it's scary. You don't know which group to be in, and I can't stand that it's so cliquey.

  

  Alexa Vega
  • School
  • High
  • Scary

• Well, I guess, but I just feel so strong. Actually, it was probably when I was 50 that we were trying to - to get pregnant, and I thought that I could do it then.

  

  Cheryl Tiegs
  • Trying
  • Strong

• Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere
  • Marriage

• Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • American
  • Literature
  • Hero

• Show business has always been my life. I love it. I've shared the ups and downs. So it will still be my life. It is a big piece of your life because this is all you know. It just seems like it takes you to such great heights in your life.

  

  James Victor Scott
  • Life
  • Great
  • Business

• I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

  

  James Purefoy

• John Carpenter had a lot to do with putting social messages into genre movies.

  

  Jason Blum

• I'm always so proud of everything I work on. I love seeing it.

  

  Daniela Bobadilla
  • Work
  • Proud

• I like to be real. I don't like things to be staged or fussy.

  

  Alice Temperley
  • Real

• I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological science.

  

  Alexis Denisof
  • Science
  • Brain
  • Mysterious

• I had been very dismissive of popular fiction - in fact, I'd refused to read it. And then I started working on popular fiction, and I realised these books weren't the same as Hemingway, say, but they were good in a different way.

  

  Chris Pavone
  • Good
  • Different
  • Popular

• Wikipedia, every day, is tens of thousands of people inputting information, and every day millions of people withdrawing that information. It's a perfect image for the fundamental point that no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

  

  James G. Stavridis
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Together

• In the West, it is the opposite, like you are using these practices [meditation and yoga ] to further your ego by being more productive, being more this, and getting more out of your work and earning more money. In the East, the whole idea is that you are dissolving your essence through these practices.

  

  Karan Bajaj
  • Practice
  • Yoga
  • Meditation

• When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Running
  • Fly
  • Girlfriend

• You can write 'little beast' if you want, but my name is David Ferrer.

  

  David Ferrer

• I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.

  

  Nickolas Ashford
  • Running
  • Sweat
  • Microphones