Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes

I've always loved the drama and the creating of a role and performance and all that comes with that, but I then also kind of like to have just the white picket fence life if that makes sense.

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• My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.

  

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• A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.

  

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• Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

  

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• During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.

  

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• If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.

  

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• Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.

  

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• Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

  

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• When the Americans were trying to conquer the Navajos, they felt this need to capture Canyon de Chelly like it was the Navajo capital. It was a meeting place and a sanctuary of last refuge. To control Canyon de Chelly was to control the Navajo people.

  

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• I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.

  

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• My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.

  

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• You can't tell your kids to read if you're just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect, I think it's important to walk the walk. It's a wonderful shared time.

  

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• Lunchtime and recess, that was a big part for me growing up. I think it's important for kids to have that.

  

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• When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.

  

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• Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

  

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• I did not capture power. I was made to assume power.

  

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• I had crushes on women - actually I loved charismatic, extreme people, women or men. By high school I was saying I must be a lesbian, because if you are attracted to women, you're a lesbian. I was also attracted to men, but I didn't get along with men.

  

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• Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'

  

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• You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

  

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• I'll never be the biggest kind of star; I'll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people can't identify the face. I don't have the personality of a big star, or the looks of a Mel Gibson or a Paul Newman, or the style of a George C. Scott.

  

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• No Dutch, no English, and therefore no planters, no coolie labour, no cash crops, no systematic exhaustion of our soil. Also no whisky, no Calvinism, no syphilis, no foreign administrators. We were left to go our own way and take responsibility for our own affairs.

  

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• Someone who is not a killer is not going to watch a TV show and decide to be a killer.

  

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• I've always loved the drama and the creating of a role and performance and all that comes with that, but I then also kind of like to have just the white picket fence life if that makes sense.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Life
  • Drama
  • Performance