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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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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Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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I always want to improve.
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In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.
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Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.
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If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off.
