Nicole Kidman (Nicole Mary Kidman) Quotes
I suppose the underlying current for me is the idea of not doing something I've done before. I call myself a character actor and I'm always trying to stay a character actor.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.
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I like the idea of having a superordinary life.
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.
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Westerns are cool, man. I'm big on Westerns. I just love the grittiness.
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I thought 'Lock Stock' was a good film. I thought 'Lock Stock' was a good film because I think it was a one-off before it was imitated a hundred times.
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Managing and moving your money should be a right, not a privilege. This isn't about banking the unbanked. It's about re-imagining what consumer retail banking can be.
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I've been in jail a couple times. I've been caught shoplifting.
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Truth is often a multiplicity of perspectives, and sometimes the more viewpoints and versions of events there are, the closer the reader gets to an overarching truth.
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We would just go out and line up a bunch of cans and shoot with rifles, handguns and at times, submachine guns... When I was a kid it was a controlled atmosphere, we weren't shooting at humans... we were shooting at cans and bottles mostly. I will most certainly take my kids out for target practice.
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I suppose the underlying current for me is the idea of not doing something I've done before. I call myself a character actor and I'm always trying to stay a character actor.
