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.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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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.
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No man may make another free.
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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.
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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.
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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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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.
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Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It is time to show the whole world that America is back - bigger and better and stronger than ever before.
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Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.
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When I was on 'SNL,' I was getting weirdly anxious about being on camera, which I had never really done before. And so my solution was just to not watch my stuff. And then I found out that other actors do it, too, and I felt less weird about it.
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We can't change the world for animals without changing our ideas about animals. We have to move from the idea that animals are things, tools, machines, commodities, resources here for our use to the idea that as sentient beings they have their own inherent value and dignity.
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It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.
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It's all I have left in my life, caffeine and a poodle.
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I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.
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I think that there's always room for humour in music. It's something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is a bit of a shame.
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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.
