Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time. We were called Fizz. I have no idea why we picked that. We were, like, 12 years old.
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With publicity comes humiliation.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.
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There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.
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The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
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Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.
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The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
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Casey Affleck is a really good friend of mine. I know Casey a lot better than I know Ben, even though Ben and I have worked together a lot.
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I have written more than 100 novels and novellas since 1983 - I was first published in 1985. There was an overlap of three years with my teaching career, but finally I felt good enough about my writing career to quit teaching and write full time.
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The only time it got really crazy was during 'Batman.' Anywhere I went in the world, people knew who I was. I was being offered these huge films that would have taken my career to a different level, and I decided to put on the brakes. I knew if I continued on that track, I probably wouldn't have gotten married.
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I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
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I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.
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If I were a strategically minded person, I think I would have a far different career.
