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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Ugh - I wish I could just sit back and watch TV sometimes.
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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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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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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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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.
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Every couple needs glue to stay together. Like all marriages, I suspect, if you're busy you don't see it coming until you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. It's a bit like going broke. It happens slowly and then very quickly.
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The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.
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It's so essential to happiness to speak your truth out loud - because this sharing of your core pain is what creates a necessary healing shift - from negative beliefs about the world - to positive beliefs - and frees you up to be able to fully view life with meaning, purpose and connection with others.
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I like to see how other people work and be part of their stuff and see what I can do to be part of their worlds. Its a pretty big challenge, and that excites me.
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I started listening to a lot of Jimi Hendrix and Neil Young when I was 8 or 9 years old - I had siblings that gave me good music instead of the crap that was on the radio in the '90s.
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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.
