Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes
Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

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I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.
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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
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I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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I actually have no style whatsoever. I'm the worst. I have people I talk to, and I say, 'Please tell me how to dress because I don't know what I'm doing.' The biggest thing for me is my mom. I'm like, 'Mom, do I look good?' If she says yes, I'm good to go.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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I love fashion, and that's how I express myself.
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If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
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Bullies always have another target.
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Things are fluid in this world, and if you don't remain fluid, you get lost in the sauce.
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I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.
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Why was I born with such contemporaries?
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When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.
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I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.
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The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.
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Buddha was a responsible guy and believed in his monks being responsible, their responsibility would no longer be to their practice or to the sangha, but to their child because that's the only honest way to do it. You can't have it both ways. So anytime a monk would have sex, there was always that possibility and it was a very big deal.
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When I die, I want to come back as me.
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Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.