Nick Blaemire Quotes
I take a lot of inspiration from the people I work with, and having many collaborators keeps me challenged and inspired.
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I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
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People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film.
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Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.
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When we were on 'The X Factor,' we didn't realize how overnight the fame thing was. We didn't really understand it until we went on a shopping trip. It was like Week 7 or 8 of the show. We went with a few other contestants and there were loads of people, packed.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour.
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It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
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I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
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New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.
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What's important to me is people just being people.
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When people today say 'racism,' they mean it's a nationalism they don't like. Racialism used to be a good thing, a looking-out for what was best for one group... Israel comes out of that 19th-century idea of nationalism. Many Arab states also have preferences. It's fundamentally unfair to decide that one is racism and the others aren't.
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I was totally sober in college and really, really focused. I just took the time when other people might be partying and just made music and played at the party instead.
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So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.
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I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.
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People striving for approval from others become phony.
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Empathy is why entertainment is always growing, and for millennials, everyone is judging them and trying to grab their attention by insulting them. We're living in a time where everyone has 25 profiles, and they're having 25 conversations.
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The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!
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It is hard to witness to truth to people who believe truth is relative. It is hard to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to people who believe that, since morality is relative, they have no sins to forgive.
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I feel like I am in the service of the poem. The poem isn't something I make. The poem is something I serve.
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It's not that I have resisted songwriting, it's just not something I felt I have had to do. I've just not woken up and thought, I must do this. But I have often heard music that I have instantly felt 'I have to sing that song'.
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I take a lot of inspiration from the people I work with, and having many collaborators keeps me challenged and inspired.
