Nasser Hussain Quotes
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
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I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
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No matter where you came from, you can be inspired.
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There is this aura that the three-act play is the important one: it's the one that you do to win the Pulitzer. Some part of you falls for that, and then after a while, you don't fall for that.
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I'm competitive in that I would like to outsell my last record.
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I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.
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The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
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If I were a customer, and I was given a dish with peppers, I would hate it. I also don't like blood sausage.
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People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
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Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.
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I want to do what I can to give the next generation of athletes added advantages in the game.
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It's nice to have some continuity you can come back to. I feel that in coming home, coming back to London.
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Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
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How do we know when someone like Hasan is going to make his move and do we know he's an Islamist until he's made his move? He makes a phone call or whatever, according to Reuters right now. Apparently he tried to contact al-Qaida. Is that the point at which you say, "This guy is dangerous?" That's not a crime to call up al-Qaida, is it? Is it? I mean, where do you stop the guy?
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I would rather have one man with enthusiasm working with me than ten who are complacent.
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I love good romantic comedies. There just aren't a lot of them. But, I love comedies, and I'll never stop doing them.
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Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss; it's about taking responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.
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I am astonished at the high prices paid for works by painters who are dead, prices none of them could expect when they were alive. It is a kind of tulip trade, in which living painters suffer but do not profit.
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Australia played some good cricket, but they have forgotten how to win.
