Nicky Oppenheimer Quotes
The army taught me to sign my name very quickly, and that's stood me in good stead the rest of my life.
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
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I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.
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I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.
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To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
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People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it's the only way you'll get anywhere.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.
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There's something about some of my favorite musicals that they put me in a sort of heightened state where I feel like I'm floating out of the theater rather than walking out.
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The army taught me to sign my name very quickly, and that's stood me in good stead the rest of my life.
