Nicholas Thorburn Quotes
I've always got songs ready to go. It's not a challenge to conjure anything, it's just whether the music I supply is desirable.
Quotes to Explore
-
Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
-
I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
-
In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
-
Ugh - I wish I could just sit back and watch TV sometimes.
-
No man may make another free.
-
Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
-
Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
-
Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
-
I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
-
More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.
-
Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
-
It just so happened that my agent called and said, 'There's this movie 'Pitch Perfect.' Here are the sides.' I think I originally read for Bumper, because Donald didn't have much in the script, so I read all Bumper's lines. I beatboxed for them, because that's what my character was supposed to do. And then I was like, 'By the way, I rap.'
-
I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.
-
The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.
-
This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
-
You have no idea how it feels to know that you've cut someone to the quick. I'll never do it again, never, never.
-
But the old man had provided his kids with one priceless gift: He’d encouraged them to read, and he didn’t bother too much about the content, subscribing to the theory that good books ultimately speak for themselves.
-
Whatever its imagined virtues, faith is the enemy of open and honest inquiry. Remaining open to the powers of conversation - to new evidence and better arguments - is not only essential for rationality. It is essential for love.
-
I'm most scared of failing, of disappointing people.
-
On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.
-
As an artist, I never want to be a moment. I want to be a legacy, and I want my music to touch people for years to come.
-
If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.
-
I've always got songs ready to go. It's not a challenge to conjure anything, it's just whether the music I supply is desirable.
