Nicholas Evans Quotes

Knowing is the easy part; saying it out loud is the hard part.

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• I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Family
  • Know
  • Immigrant

• Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Sometimes
  • Difficult
  • Throat

• The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Fun
  • Kid
  • Favorite

• Growing up in Ireland, there never seemed to be the notion that children should be seen and not heard. We all looked forward to mealtimes when we'd sit around the table and talk about our days. Storytelling and long, rambling conversations were considered good things.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Door
  • Looking
  • Citizens

• I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.

  

  Florence Green
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Opportunity
  • Right
  • Wait

• My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mother

• Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • Health
  • Mental Health

• New Hampshire understands the need to pursue modern and long-term energy strategies that will help lower costs, protect our natural resources, and create good jobs.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Help

• My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Style
  • Enthusiasm
  • Skill

• Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Goal
  • Very
  • Become

• I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Know
  • Means
  • Normal

• Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Words
  • Feeling
  • Me

• I have never been one of those actors who say, 'Oh, my character wouldn't do this,' or 'My character never wears an orange shirt,' or any of the number of inane things I've heard on movie sets throughout my career.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Career

• The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Live
  • Present
  • Singing

• Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Work
  • Women
  • Economic

• It really occurred to me at a certain point: women have not been embodied. Feminism has not been embodied. It hasn't gotten into us in a way where it is so undeniable that there is nothing to prove. Do you know what I mean? That we are so in our feminist skin, so to speak, that we are that world now.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Prove
  • Feminism
  • Embodied

• In the annals of American blunders, the Bay of Pigs may have been even more feckless, and the invasion of Iraq more costly, but we cannot yet calculate the cost of teaching Iran and others, by our role in the casual overthrow of Moammar Gaddafi, the peril of not having nuclear weapons.

  

  George Will
  • May
  • Iraq
  • Iran

• You may dislike what somebody else has said; that is perfectly valid. You may not agree with what somebody else has said. But saying something cannot possibly amount to sedition.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • May
  • You
  • Said

• Tips like that. Wearing necklaces, knowing how to layer, wearing a statement piece. Don't wear big earrings and a big necklace and a big ring all at the same time. Pick your magic. I have this whole thing: if you look good, you feel good, and if you feel good, you look good.

  

  Molly Sims
  • Knowing
  • Rings
  • Layers

• Everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Different
  • Women
  • Guy

• Knowing is the easy part; saying it out loud is the hard part.

  

  Nicholas Evans
  • Hard
  • Knowing
  • Saying