Nikki Reed (Nicole Houston Reed) Quotes
Being an actor, you have to be working even when you're not working. You never really get to relax because anytime you're relaxing in between jobs, you're just worried that you're not going to get another job.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.
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I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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I would like to enlighten people.
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I was exercising so hard that I began to lose weight.
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The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.
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The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.
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If you feel good, you stand up a bit straighter.
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The corporations are shoving just the worst music down everybody's throats, and I think the result of that is that nobody has any taste. They have no bar as to what is good.
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No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer think that loyalty to truth should come before loyalty to his client.
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When I grew up, we went to Coney Island and Central Park. We'd find our way to the water and watch the fireworks.
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To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.
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When Paul was arrested in Japan for having hash in his luggage, I thought he'd be out that night. But it became really serious stuff when he was kept in a cell. I became more fearful as the days went by.
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I have always had a liking for pilgrimages, and if I had lived in the Middle Ages would have spent most of my time on the way to Rome. The pilgrims, leaving all their cares at home, the anxieties of their riches or their debts, the wife that worried and the children that disturbed, took only their sins with them, and turning back on their obligations, set out with that sole burden, and perhaps a cheerful heart.
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Being an actor, you have to be working even when you're not working. You never really get to relax because anytime you're relaxing in between jobs, you're just worried that you're not going to get another job.
