Nigel Rees Quotes
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
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I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. We had a different way of living that developed our survival instincts, and I use those to this day when I make films. You can't buy that.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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I am aware that I look good for my age. It's my genes. My dad looked incredibly young, so did my mother. And a younger husband helps. Scott is only 45. If he hadn't come along, I don't know what I'd have done.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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If someone writes something shitty and you actually address them, most of the time they're just like, "Oh, I'm sorry. I'm a big fan." And they're really nice people. When you're on the Internet, it's people's first instinct to just go after people.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
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People will say what they want to say, in the way they want to.
