Nick Blaemire Quotes
The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
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Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.
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When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.
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Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.
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It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
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When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.
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What's interesting about Twitter and the influencers that someone follows - like, say, Shaquille O'Neal - is that they see someone who is using the exact same tools that they have access to, and I think that inspires this hope to be able to really engage with someone like him.
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I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.
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Husbands and wives, have fun with each other. I'm convinced it makes all the difference in the world.
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The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.
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You can't tell a writer they should just be more confident.
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There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers.
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When you're setting up your dating profile, choose the photos according to who you are today. A variety of recent shots that are a true representation of your character.
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Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. … This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.
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Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.
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The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work.
