Nick Broomfield Quotes
My advice for first-time filmmakers: don't sit around waiting for the money to come your way; it's much easier to go out and start. Nowadays, you can go out and shoot very inexpensively and discover whether or not filmmaking is your thing.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.
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The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
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The best advice I got as a writer was also the first advice, which came from the late fantasy author and editor Karl Edward Wagner: Any agent who charges to look at your work is a crook.
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My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.
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I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.
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My biggest advice for girls – and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger – is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.
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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
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I always have issues with trust. I'm a New Yorker... Really, I think trust is something that comes from the gut. And I think you have to - it's probably the worst advice to give people - but I think you gotta trust people from your gut.
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Stick up for what you believe in and never, ever feel that you can't say something or speak your mind. I think that would be the best advice. Be strong. Be confident. That's really all you need.
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'Vicky Donor' proved that the audience was waiting for well-scripted funny films.
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The way I see it, I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.
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Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
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As human beings, we are all flawed. And just like there is a good side, there is also a bad side waiting to find its way out.
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There was no child oncology in Uzbekistan and in Russia you don't have a chance because there are already so many on the waiting lists.
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Delivering advice assumes that our cognitive apparatus rather than our emotional machinery exerts some meaningful control over our actions.
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I love a woman who can out-eat me.
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I believe strongly that we need a finance industry that is good for the economy, and I don't think anybody would argue that during the eight years leading up to the Great Recession, a lot of bets were made and risks taken that weren't good for the economy.
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My father was always clowning around. It was a huge influence on me. In my family, everything is turned into a joke.
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If I went into politics, it's because I grew up in a political atmosphere.
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My advice for first-time filmmakers: don't sit around waiting for the money to come your way; it's much easier to go out and start. Nowadays, you can go out and shoot very inexpensively and discover whether or not filmmaking is your thing.
