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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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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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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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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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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Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.
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China is illegally dumping steel in the United States and Donald Trump is buying it to build his buildings, putting steelworkers and American steel plants out of business. That's something that I fought against as a senator and that I would have a trade prosecutor to make sure that we don't get taken advantage of by China on steel or anything else.
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There are 195 crime books published in Sweden every year. You could cut that to 100 and keep the good ones.
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If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.
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As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
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I look for characters that interest me, and a story that keeps me involved and makes me want to know what happens next.
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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.
