Nicholas Thorburn Quotes

I don't want to over think anything because the second I do, I start to fail.

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• I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.

  

  Iris Apfel
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• There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Think
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• It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • People
  • Kids
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• I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.

  

  Garth Nix
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  • Reading

• The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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  • Moment

• The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.

  

  Adam Carolla
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• Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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  • Society
  • Political

• I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.

  

  Dan Gilbert
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• I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.

  

  Daniel Breaker
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• I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.

  

  Kara Hayward
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• I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.

  

  Omari Hardwick
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• I hate jet lag, but I love, love, love, love traveling - to meet new people, to try different foods because I'm a big foodie. I love food, even though people think models don't eat. We do eat.

  

  Irina Shayk
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  • Hate

• I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

  

  Aaron Johnson
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  • Artist

• I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• The thing is, even though you think a lot about your movie, and there's a lot of preparation behind it, the final end result completely goes beyond it. It's not something you're aware of.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
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• Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

  

  A. A. Milne
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• I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.

  

  Sam Mendes
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  • Competition
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• I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.

  

  P. L. Travers
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  • Understand

• I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare at times, we all know that, but nevertheless in the end I think to have someone else's input on anything - a book, a meal, your children, life, a walk - is fantastic.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• My life is just a series of mistakes and regrets of varying degrees.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Mistakes

• IN A MATTER of a little more than a year, I had gone from being the most despised creature in the Third Reich—a hunted Jewish slave girl dodging a transport to Poland—to being one of its most valued citizens, a breeding Aryan housewife. People treated me with concern and respect. If they only knew who I had been! If they only knew whose new life I was breeding!

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
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  • Creature

• I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.

  

  Vince Vaughn
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  • Family
  • Art

• I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Teacher
  • Everything
  • Loved

• I don't want to over think anything because the second I do, I start to fail.

  

  Nicholas Thorburn
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