Nigel Barker Quotes
We did a 60 page book in one day. She's one of the most photogenic, easy to shoot, inspiring, extraordinary people in front of the camera who I've ever photographed. Yes Taylor Swift has it all. My goodness that girl has it all, what can I say she's extraordinary.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.
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The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.
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Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.
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Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
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The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.
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It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.
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To act is to rest.
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I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.
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In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.
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I never did like Cleveland. Don't know why. Didn't like the town. Now, the people are all right, but I just didn't like the town.
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Language is the house of the truth of Being.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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We did a 60 page book in one day. She's one of the most photogenic, easy to shoot, inspiring, extraordinary people in front of the camera who I've ever photographed. Yes Taylor Swift has it all. My goodness that girl has it all, what can I say she's extraordinary.
