Nicole Avant (Nicole A. Avant) Quotes

I'm out there talking to everyone. My days are filled with breakfast, lunches, dinner and drinks.

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• At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • College
  • Language
  • Poet

• I think we know how to do Mars.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Think
  • Know
  • Mars

• I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

  

  Valerie June
  • Judge
  • Songs
  • Boss

• Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Should
  • Something
  • Talk

• I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Morning

• The team behind 'The Lego Movie' approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee 'Everything is Awesome.' They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Happy
  • Movie
  • Song

• We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Death
  • Winning
  • Dying

• Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Country
  • Death

• I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • House
  • Couple
  • Break

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms that wander around the edge of it in the world, but actually the children's writers are the children.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Live
  • Children

• It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Men
  • Promise

• The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Free
  • Stop
  • Process

• We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Model

• See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • See
  • Surprise
  • Awards

• Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Green

• Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Person
  • Dust

• Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Up
  • Want
  • Yourself

• Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • World
  • Science
  • Reflect

• I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Kind
  • Very
  • Loser

• A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • May
  • Job
  • High

• Planned Parenthood has a large target on its back.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Back
  • Target
  • Planned

• I'm out there talking to everyone. My days are filled with breakfast, lunches, dinner and drinks.

  

  Nicole Avant
  • Day
  • Talking
  • Everyone