Nina Conti Quotes
The most satisfaction I get is from doing a good gig, which really makes you feel in control. If you've worked a room really well, it makes you feel great. TV is a bit more difficult; there are more factors that can screw it up along the way.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
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If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.
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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
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I love running and I will always run.
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I've learned 90 percent of what I know from watching and listening to actors. A good leading actor is the rock of the show. Their energy and their tone really sets the groundwork for how everything is going to work. I've been lucky to deal with stars who are very giving and generous.
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Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
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It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye.
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This kind of art - the dystopic future kind of art - is designed to make you uncomfortable.
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Daredevil's religion makes him unique. He's a vigilante, but he's also a lawyer - and all the while, he believes only God is capable of bringing people to justice.
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The toughest decision is always whether to open a restaurant. Two or three bad months, and you could be out of business.
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Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.
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It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera.
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I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
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We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.
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It is the tuning of the universe... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I will protect them and make sure that they have approval over every bit of it so that they know I won't show something that's embarrassing.
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The most satisfaction I get is from doing a good gig, which really makes you feel in control. If you've worked a room really well, it makes you feel great. TV is a bit more difficult; there are more factors that can screw it up along the way.
