Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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A busybody's work is never done.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
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The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.
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I'm very blessed that I get to dabble in both music and movies, and as long as people are willing to accept me in both roles, I'll be there.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.
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They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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The variety of training is a major selling point of triathlon. Different sports, different venues means it's always interesting, and you can always switch things round if the weather messes your plans up.
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Lots of the things we do are dangerous, but life itself is dangerous; nothing is really worth bothering with that isn't full of danger...
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One doesn't love any of the things of Summer as much as one does the things of Spring.
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There are two ways to learn anything. An interesting way and a boring way. I like the interesting way.
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After the Oscar for 'Shampoo,' I had a sense, even as I was walking up to get it, that this was the height of where I was going to go as an actress. And I felt that now was the time, if I wanted a longer life in the arts, that I had to jump from acting to directing.
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The things that go on in my head are far more interesting than what actually happens.
