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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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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I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.
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If I close my eyes, I can remember the first apartment where I lived with my family in Newark, N.J., in the late 1930s. The rooms were lined up like train cars - you had to go through one to get to another - and there wasn't any heat or hot water.
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I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of going to the White House for a meeting must seem like the most important, serious, even glamorous kind of thing to do.
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I've got good speed off the edge.
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New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.
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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.
