Nicholas Evans Quotes
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
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Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.
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My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.
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The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life.
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The modern woman has a modern life, and most of us work. There's no time to change before we go out in the evening, so a dress should always look appropriate for day and night.
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In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.
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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.
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I spent a whole year in New York without going back to France. And I always came back because my mother was living in New York since I was 13. So I went to summer camps, hang out at the Roxy, go to class for ballet, so I always had part of my life in New York.
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When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.
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My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'
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To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.
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All men do the best they can. But none meet life honestly and few heroically.
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In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.
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I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.
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I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.
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The devil knows more from experience than from being the devil
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Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road.
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A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening.
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I feel so much more comfortable that I've ever been. I've felt male as far back as I can remember.
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Life isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you handle what happens.
