Nicky Whelan Quotes
Being around the energy of new people is wonderful. It only lifts my performance and makes it better.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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We condemn any kind of abuse of Muslim women or women anywhere in the world.
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The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
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Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
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Life on a factory farm is well-nigh unbearable for the animals or birds, and it is often foul for the women and men who process the meat that results - especially in factories for chicken parts. But do not sentimentalize. Do not imagine barnyard life is a bowl of cherries.
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When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.
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Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 462
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Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.
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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.
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The real problem, both in discussions of mass shootings and in discussions of gun control, is that too many people are too committed to a vision to allow mere facts to interfere with their beliefs, and the sense of superiority that those beliefs give them.
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In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.
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Being around the energy of new people is wonderful. It only lifts my performance and makes it better.
