Nick Damici Quotes
Originality is always a strange thing. There's nothing original anymore. It's all something based on something in some way - even if it's not intentional. So that idea has been done.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.
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Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
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The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret – that's really distasteful to me.
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It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.
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My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.
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Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.
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It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.
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Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.
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I travel with a lot of clothes, which is a really bad idea because it's such a nightmare to travel. I always overpack because I like to bring things with me, and I accumulate stuff, so it piles up. I travel with everything I own.
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I like the idea of taking off like a bird.
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I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable.
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I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.
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This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom.
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Any slower and he'd be in reverse.
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I love my friends and my past, and it's made me who I am.
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I learned when I was a student in Connecticut. I had an Italian-American teacher who gave me classes for a week, and then said, "Okay, you're ready." And I wasn't ready. I didn't know how to drive!. But he knew the policeman who gave the test. And that's how I got through.
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Originality is always a strange thing. There's nothing original anymore. It's all something based on something in some way - even if it's not intentional. So that idea has been done.
