Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes
You look at somebody's work as an actor and you can see their emotional life being fed into it and you can kind of feel them through it.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.
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You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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A lot of people on the internet have been saying that there's no way we can pull off a musical in three acts. We just take that as a challenge.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.
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New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.
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I'm not a trained musician. When folks talk about 'Well, you go to this or that' - the tenor, or the third part - I don't really know what they're talking about.
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We've sung to prerecorded tracks and things like that, but we've never done a proper world tour with a band and everything.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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You look at somebody's work as an actor and you can see their emotional life being fed into it and you can kind of feel them through it.
