Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes
I find trying to solve problems and save lives is far more important than my film career.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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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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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.
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I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted them. From the get-go, I've frequently mouthed off about their negative impact on the game.
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I definitely would not do a reality show.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don't sing in the shower, maybe its because that's the one time I don't need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I'm just, you know, jibber jabber.
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Stories that can be told through language and words don't need to be filmed.
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By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.
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The second thing that happened is, DNA analysis is much more sophisticated. All you have to do now is spit in a test tube and you find out all kind of things in six weeks - where they are from in Africa or Europe. You can prove or disprove the fundamental African-American myth that you descended from a Cherokee great, great grandmother.
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Gymnastics is the greatest sport in the world, and one of the hardest, but we have to watch out for domineering male figures who try to belittle and scream at young girls.
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The element of surprise is the most important thing and what keeps me interested in writing. I can feel it if I've written that predictable or boring line, and I will carry that around with me all day.
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I find trying to solve problems and save lives is far more important than my film career.
