Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes
I was taught a very strong work ethic that included punctuality, which I've always felt is a sign of respect for others.
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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The show I'm obsessed with watching is 'Say Yes to the Dress!' Because I love the whole makeover idea, and I'm a sap for love, of course.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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I don't do meetings.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
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What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
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I lived in Paris for four years, so I am obsessed with pastries. Croissants, pain au chocolat, cakes, macarons, all of that!
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Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
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You've got to believe you can get a result from the game.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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I studied Morse code.
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There are moments when you love babies, and you're like, "God, they are the reason why we exist." Then they start crying, and you're like "God! Jesus!"
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I was taught a very strong work ethic that included punctuality, which I've always felt is a sign of respect for others.
