Nigel Short (Nigel David Short) Quotes
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Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
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We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.
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Sometimes I draw blanks.
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
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It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you.
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I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.
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The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.
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The situation has gone from bad to worse.
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I tried to, from my very early years, I've been an inveterate movie goer and still am and I, I love the medium. So what I, what I draw and what I'm still doing, is part of that particular orientation.
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The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.
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things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.
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You just have to want to do it. I don't know how but I know that it has to be done. I know if we get frustrated and start turning on each other that it is only going to get worse.
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Sometimes you need to know to quit while you're ahead or at least before things get much worse!
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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
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There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.
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Running from your fear can be more painful than facing it, for better or worse.
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It seems like they played really hard against Sacramento, didn't they? That was their other opponent they had an option to play. It would seem like they want to choose us.
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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
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There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.
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I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.
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The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.
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And he realized... that fragile, mortal life wasn't just important to him. It was more important than his own.
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I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended.
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If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off.
