Nina Dobrev (Nikolina Konstantinova Dobreva) Quotes

I think you have to draw from any character and bring it to yourself as much as possible.

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• Necessity makes even the timid brave.

  

  Sallust
  • Brave
  • Necessity
  • Even

• I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Quiet

• When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Great
  • Book
  • Game

• If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Attention
  • Care
  • Voice

• The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.

  

  Adam Draper
  • World
  • Strong
  • Community

• Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Home
  • Interesting
  • Door

• I think to be Miss U.S.A., first of all, you need to represent everybody, all of us here.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Think
  • You
  • Need

• I don't go out of the way to take special care of myself.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Way
  • Myself
  • Care

• Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • First
  • Everything
  • Creation

• 'The Burning Dark' needs a certain kind of soundtrack - something dark and moody, electronic, weird. One of my favourite bands is Ladytron, and I think they'd fit the bill quite well.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Think
  • Dark
  • Weird

• What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're creative, you find more ways to cheat and still yourself a story about why this is okay.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • Why
  • Yourself

• No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Government
  • Survive
  • Civil Rights

• I don't care about being the champ champ. I want to be the only consecutive 12-time defending champion in any mixed martial arts promotion.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Time
  • Champion

• If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

  

  Chanakya
  • Good
  • Value

• When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

  

  Jean Paul Gaultier

• The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

  

  Louis D. Brandeis
  • World
  • Believe
  • Law

• I worked with Ice-T, Ice Cube, and Tupac! But Tupac was the sweetest man in the world. That whole thug thing was an act - it was silly and dumb. He was a complete gentleman and one of the kindest men I've ever met.

  

  Lori Petty
  • World
  • Men
  • Silly

• Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Today

• When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.

  

  Saul Leiter
  • Taken
  • Seeing
  • Confusion

• It's so important just to be true to yourself and to own your own character and take responsibility for it, and speak up and say, This isn't right; this isn't me.' It's a great lesson, not just in wrestling but in life. If you're not feeling something that's true to your heart... everybody's gotta be true.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

  

  Jane Seymour
  • Art
  • Character
  • Movie

• People of good character are not all going to come down on the same side of difficult political and social issues. Good people - people of character and moral literacy - can be conservative, and good people can be liberal. We must not permit our disputes over thorny political questions to obscure the obligation we have to offer instruction to all our young people in the area in which we have, as a society, reached a consensus: namely, on the importance of good character, and some of its pervasive particulars.

  

  William Bennett
  • People
  • Character
  • Political

• As a matter of fact, that was a bit of a problem for me at the beginning of my career - the problem of identification. In The Conversation I played a character who was gay, so nobody recognised me from American Graffiti. When I did Apocalypse Now, after Star Wars, I played an intelligence officer of the American army. George Lucas saw the footage I had done and didn't recognise me until halfway through the scene.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Character
  • Problem
  • Conversation

• I think you have to draw from any character and bring it to yourself as much as possible.

  

  Nina Dobrev
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  • Draw