Nikki Reed (Nicole Houston Reed) Quotes
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
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I don't know that a lot of boys read 'Rookie', but we get quite a few nice comments and e-mails from them. To say I'm devoted to making it girls-only is a little extreme, because I don't actively try to exclude everyone else, just make sure girls know that this space is for them first and foremost.
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Don't take things too seriously, and just chill.
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I miss 'EastEnders.' I loved it. But I was exhausted when I left. They asked me to go back recently - they've asked a few times. I am tempted! But my husband Scott says you have to really think about it. Because, towards the end, I was so exhausted and not sleeping at night. I'm not quite ready for it.
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I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown.
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As an author, you spend a lot of time by yourself in a room making clicky noises. It gets pretty insulated. You realize pretty early on in your career that even if this goes well, you could spend all your life in a room alone. Unless you pick projects that are going to get you out doing things, you're not going to actually live your life.
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Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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I do have hobbies - I garden and bike, for example - but there's nothing in the world that gives me even a fraction of the pleasure that I derive from hanging around with my wife and daughter.
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We live in a world where sort of nothing is shocking anymore.
