Nigel Dennis (Nigel Forbes Dennis) Quotes
So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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A true champion can adapt to anything.
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History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.
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We love our fans and are very connected with our fans.
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You cannot mix sports with politics.
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Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.
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They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.
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A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
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I feel that for the story of 'Romeo and Juliet' to be impactful, it has to be believable, and there has to be a certain level of chemistry between the two characters.
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Innovation requires a novel approach to scientific problem solving, higher level of resource commitments over much longer time durations.
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I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
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To look out of a car in Scania, you see a painting on the horizontal - one windmill, one tiny farmhouse, acres of beet or grass.
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It's strange with graffiti. You put a lot out, but you don't get that much back because not many people know who's doing it. You have your peers of about 10 guys who know you are the one painting.
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The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of this freedom was bought for them at a great price. It is for them to show their gratitude by helping onward the reforms of their own times, by spreading the light of freedom and of truth still wider. The debt that each generation owes to the past it must pay to the future.
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So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!
