Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes
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My 93-year-old grandma is a beautiful example of healthy living. She laughs a lot and always says, 'Just be yourself!' She also eats dessert every single day.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76.
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When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.
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Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.
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While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay liberation on an individual life (mine) as events paralleled my own growing self-acceptance; in this case, the political truly was the personal.
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The popularity of leaders like Mandela was an invitation to counter-attack by the government. Mandela was banned from speaking, from attending gatherings, from leaving Johannesburg, from belonging to any organization.
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As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.
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As you get older, you become more unapologetic about how you really are, how you feel about things, and you really say it out loud.
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I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
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The thing I noticed is that a lot of times great material can get ruined if its not in the right hands.
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People hate people who are good at things. People hate people who are cute.
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They say that gardens look better when they are created by loving gardeners rather than by landscapers, because the garden is more tended to and cared for. The same thing goes for cooking. I only cook for people I love.
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I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.
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We view films in the context of darkness. We sit in darkness and watch an illuminated world, the world of the screen. This situation is a metaphor for the nature of our own vision. In the very process of seeing, our own skull is like a dark theatre, and the world we see in front of us is in a sense a screen. We watch the world from the dark theatre of our skull. The darker the room, the more luminous the screen.
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I didn't really care about my physical health; I only cared about what was on screen.
