Nick Burd Quotes
Dads are the appendix of humanity. They should just be taken out before they start causing problems.
Quotes to Explore
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I'm not one of those people that wears something once and tosses it aside. I wear my shoes until they beg to be thrown away. Parting is such sweet sorrow - and then it's onto the next pair.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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If not shown appreciation, it gets to you.
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It's not my fault that people don't know me. I'm going to speak my mind, no matter what the consequences are.
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I live in one of Judy Garland's houses. As a fan, I never much liked Judy Garland, but living here, I feel like I have come to know her. People have given me a few of her possessions, and my neighbors have told me things that I wish I didn't know.
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It's really easy to end up on the 'Daily Mail' if you put yourself in situations where you'll end up on the 'Daily Mail,' and it's really easy to not if you don't do that.
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Hope is the poor man's bread.
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I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What I should have done was say. 'Girls, it's really time for me to go on my own. I need to fulfill this dream of mine to have a solo album.' And I didn't know how to do that. I wanted to please them.
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My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office.
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Because of the lack of interoperability, we can lose billions of dollars in productivity.
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It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.
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Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.
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Dads are the appendix of humanity. They should just be taken out before they start causing problems.
