Nicholas Evans Quotes
Look after each other. As a couple. When you have kids, you'll want to put them first. Don't. Marriage is like a plant. To keep it alive you've got to water it and feed it.
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.
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I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.
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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.
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There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.
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Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.
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I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.
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Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.
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That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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I try to not read about myself. I think it's easier to have it out of sight and out of mind.
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For me, life is about experiencing many new things and working with good people, working on good projects, and in general, just having any kind of job.
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If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.
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I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.
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In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.
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Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.
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When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
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Look after each other. As a couple. When you have kids, you'll want to put them first. Don't. Marriage is like a plant. To keep it alive you've got to water it and feed it.
