Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes
My path was to be an actor and it’s been very good to me in life. It’s broadened my horizons and given me a lot of gifts.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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I was grinding like I was winning the tournament.
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What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
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Everything in America is so uniform. In Russia, everywhere you go is completely insane.
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Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.
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The euro area must not be treated as an 'opt out' from the European Union.
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My path was to be an actor and it’s been very good to me in life. It’s broadened my horizons and given me a lot of gifts.
