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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Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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I'm a dreamer. I watch people. You don't try to become them because you could never become any of those guys. But you hope that some of it, you know, comes off on you at some point in your show, some point in your writing, that it happens to you and this light just shines on you.
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If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off.
