Nancy Giles Quotes
There is an unbelievable, close-minded panic over a president who is brown shinned, a first lady that is brown skinned. An America that’s changing its color.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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'Air' is very placeless - it's set in many different countries, and much of the story is about going places rather than being places. 'Air' is about travelers, and I'm a chronic traveler.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my passion.
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.
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I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do 'Jesus Christ Super Star' in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.
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A novel can do something that films and TV usually can't - a glimpse inside the characters' heads. I write very tight third person point of view, so the reader is right behind the eyes of each character, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel.
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There is a huge gap between the remuneration of an actor and actress.
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I've been a free man.
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There are some things in this establishment that are fundamental... about which I shall deal plainly with you... the government by a single person and a parliament is a fundamental... and... though I may seem to plead for myself, yet I do not: no, nor can any reasonable man say it... I plead for this nation, and all the honest men therein.
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I didn’t want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I’ve tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well.
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Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance.
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Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business.
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I love the sounds of Latin jazz, R&B, hip-hop, alternative, all that stuff. I'm a radio kid.
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I hate going to fashion shows. I find them boring.
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I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
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Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and turns that surprise me, characters that have a difficult time and that I don't know if they're going to live or die.
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America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.
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There is an unbelievable, close-minded panic over a president who is brown shinned, a first lady that is brown skinned. An America that’s changing its color.
