Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes
It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
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Instead of hazarding our future on the dirty fuels of the past, let's invest in clean power that can drive this country forward. Let's cut energy waste, make our economy the world's most efficient, and give our workers a leg up in the global marketplace.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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I bungee-jump, skydive, surf and snowboard.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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If you're in a major city, there's a 25-year cycle. In Vegas, it's probably 10 or 15 years, except for those landmark places like Spago or Nobu. In Vegas, you have to reinvent yourself once in a while.
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We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.
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Any professional athlete will tell you that the mind is everything. For me, there is no shame in saying that I visualize and I meditate, because it really works.
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There doesn't seem to be a religion in 'Game of Thrones' that's totally peaceful... we haven't seen any Buddhists.
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.
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Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of the 20th century in 'The Lord of the Rings,' and making it into three movies, I hope people realize I wouldn't get involved in anything I didn't think was really going to be worth their while.
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The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.
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Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.
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'...there were some things that were true, and some things that were trite; but what was true was trite, and what was not trite was not true...'
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I'm not Mary Poppins, but I think I functioned with integrity.
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A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.
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We know that diversity can sometimes be more uncomfortable because things are less familiar - but it gets the best results.
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My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.
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It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.
