Nicholas Nixon Quotes
I'm not very good at working for other people. I mostly make pictures because of some whim. With luck, I get a glimpse of something, and then it turns into an adventure, and then into a project.
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
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I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.
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It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.
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Nobody would let us do 'Crisis' again.
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Doing something for Victoria's Secret would be great - I love Doutzen Kroes. She's so special to look at but seems like a very normal person. She's true to herself - that's important to me.
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It meant a lot because it was my first time to compete as a senior at that meet, which was kind of weird because I've done senior all year, but I didn't get to compete last year because of my elbow.
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I love tap!
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Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.
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There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
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There is nothing like mortal fear to galvanize a friendship.
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I would daydream about what it would be like to be an actor. I would even do talk shows where I interviewed myself.
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Non-studio entities can experiment with storytelling that might be too niche... for a studio.
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The fact is, women don't like to talk about money, let alone deal with it. Though we're killing it at work, earning more than ever, running our households, and making big-ticket decisions, too many women still worry they'll be judged by what they earn and how they spend it.
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I played a waiter on 'Will & Grace,' a waiter on 'Medium' and on 'Weeds.' They all got cut out. I'm an awful waiter in real life. Maybe I was an awful waiter on screen, too.
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I saw 'Birth' at the Sundance Film Festival with a thousand other strangers, and I couldn't believe that was me in the film. I didn't recognize myself.
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Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.
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There's a limit that you will not be able to go past if you don't understand the importance of reading.
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Hitler was never a socialist.
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I've been playing music most of my life.
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My self-publishing adventure led to my work being picked up by a traditional publisher and eventually hitting the bestseller lists. That led to two more bestselling novels.
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I'm not very good at working for other people. I mostly make pictures because of some whim. With luck, I get a glimpse of something, and then it turns into an adventure, and then into a project.
