Nicholas Thorburn Quotes
You're forced to step into that performer role. I can't just hide behind a synthesizer forever.
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I never allow myself to be pressured.
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I don't write about my life in my column.
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Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.
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When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
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Our message of the day is service does not need a title.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski
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I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
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Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
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Even when EPA subjects its science to peer review, the agency often stacks the deck of supposedly independent advisory panels by including members who are EPA grant recipients.
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There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.
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You don't go to church and tell the choir how to sing if you're a visitor.
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Gigi is my perfect partner. She's my best friend. She's the most fun of anyone I know, and she's also the kindest and most tolerant person.
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The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.
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Every love song I write is for Linda.
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Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.
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For me it's the same thing if the fans boo or not, because my role is the villain. I'm happy when you clap me though.
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Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.
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I never saw myself as a director. It's certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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When you used to be able to express yourself as an adult in your own language, or as I can do in English, for instance, it's sometimes hard to switch back to very simple talking, like I am forced to do in Finnish. So a real conversation, when I really wanna tell something, I can't do it in Finnish.
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I feel better about blaming myself if there is some sort of mistake and that's why I'm not in a rush.
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You're forced to step into that performer role. I can't just hide behind a synthesizer forever.
