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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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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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.
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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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We've been working our tail off and lead by that example.
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My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.
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There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.
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I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.
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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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I've been hurting most of my life. I tried to pretend I wasn't. I even believed my own lie. I've lived my entire life trying to avoid pain...That's a terrible way to live. I don't care any more if it hurts...If I'm working on a painting, and it doesn't hurt, then the painting won't matter. And if it doesn't matter, then it isn't real—then I'm not real...I have a new theory...if I develop a great capacity for feeling pain, then I am also developing a great capacity for feeling happiness.
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Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.
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A lot of filmmakers and actors say, "It's so important to bring an authenticity to the role," blah, blah, blah. But then it's interesting because you're also trying to be somebody else, and viewers are going to associate you with that, so I don't think it really has an answer.
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Working gets in the way of living.
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You're forced to step into that performer role. I can't just hide behind a synthesizer forever.
