Nicholai Olivia Rothschild (Nicky Hilton Rothschild) Quotes
When I signed the license, I thought the media wasn't going to pick up on it if I used my real name, Nicholai Hilton.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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Satire doesn't effect change.
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On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.
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The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.
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I was in college when tens of thousands of people marched on Washington for the first Earth Day. Raw sewage floated in rivers and clouds of smog hung over cities. But then something amazing happened. People spoke out. Thousands of students, workers, and ordinary citizens used their voices to say, 'This has to change.'
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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You can't regulate what these kids are being exposed to on the Internet. It's so way out of control. All you can do is just try to talk to your own kids.
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I'm a girl who loves to share information, especially empowering, life-changing, information.
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A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.
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I may not be as visible as I used to be, and by that I mean being in the clubhouse or on the field. But I'm just as invested as I've always been.
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Some people don't operate in that way: they can't understand how much strength comes from being compassionate and lifting other people up.
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There is no cure for prions. They are a protein-based disease that, among other things, targets and transforms your brain. The symptoms reveal themselves differently in each host, and you might go months or you might go years before you realize you're infected.
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My father was a master of the cutting insult.
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I'm interested in telling stories that add up to more than the entertainment of the story. That's what does it for me.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.
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I've never been a size 0.
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In 'Queer as Folk,' we had three or four sex scenes in every episode, so I got used to doing that very early on. Those kinds of scenes can be challenging. They take a bit of time, and everyone's a bit nervous.
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When I signed the license, I thought the media wasn't going to pick up on it if I used my real name, Nicholai Hilton.
