Nigel Rees Quotes

I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.

Nigel Rees

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• I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.

  

  Larry Bird
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• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

  

  Walter Anderson
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• Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.

  

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• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
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• I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.

  

  Aaron Paul
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• No man fails who does his best.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
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• The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

  

  Ice T
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  • Acting
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• I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Vote
  • Count

• I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Live
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• The dearest things I know are what you are.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
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• What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
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• A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Man
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• And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Me
  • Best
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• Short cuts make long delays.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Long
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• On Monday I come in and get in a full body workout, and then I come back in on Wednesday and do a quick six, which consists of bench press, biceps and triceps curls, pull downs, something for the back and the neck. And then you come back and hit it again on Friday with a 16-machine workout.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
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• I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and other groups. I believe that many politicians think this has been the way it has always been, so what's the problem?

  

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• I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

  

  Barbara Walters
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  • Earth

• When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

  

  Maurice de Vlaminck
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• There are two evil futurities and one good. A miserable future existence is evil; and annihilation, or nigban, is an evil - a fearful evil. A happy future existence is alone good.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • Good
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• I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind.

  

  Conrad Hall
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• If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Audience

• In general, I never think it is a good idea to try to recreate past successes. You have to strike out on your own, for better or worse.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Good
  • Past

• I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.

  

  Nigel Rees
  • School
  • Words
  • Shy