Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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I think anytime that somebody that works for the government lies, yes, they should be removed.
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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
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It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.
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When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
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The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
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Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
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The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
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My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
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I know people could tell incredible stories. People have been in concentration camps, or women being raped, or a man going to war and not recovering from it. People have been robbed and beaten. A lot of people have had strong events in their life, which I didn't.
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It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.
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My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.
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For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.
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I'm now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way.
