Nicholas Thorburn Quotes
Thankfully, I'm not put in a position where I'm made to feel like I can't live my life.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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India is an important market for Ericsson, not only as a telecom market but also as a global hub for R&D.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
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I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.
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Be strong to hope, O Heart!Though day is bright,The stars can only shineIn the dark night.Be strong, O Heart of mine,Look towards the light!
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Karaoke bars are devil worship!
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A few years ago, I fell in love with a man before realising he was married.
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Harper Lee's novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' became iconic almost immediately after appearing in 1960: best-seller status; the Pulitzer Prize the next year; a classic movie soon after, with Gregory Peck in an Academy Award-winning role.
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Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.
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Messi deserves to win this World Cup for all he has done for football.
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Yes, I will put it out there - I will work for anyone for free if they're prepared to make their clothing Fair Trade and organic. It's really hard to get people interested in it.
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Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.
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As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.
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The 'Chronicles of Narnia' have been favourites of mine since my childhood when I misread 'Aslan' as 'Alsatian' and was struck by the genius of naming a lion after a dog!
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LSD, yeah, the big parade – everybody's doin' it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick mob. I am building a machine gun in my closet now to take out as many of them as I can before they get me.
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In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.
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A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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Thankfully, I'm not put in a position where I'm made to feel like I can't live my life.
