Nick Damici Quotes
I don't think you get anything good if you just accept everything the way it rolls out. You have to fight for what you believe in.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
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I always eat a huge breakfast on match days even though my stomach hates it.
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I don't necessarily like wearing lipstick; I just think it's funny to do. I think the darker the better, but it's whatever my girlfriend Kiera has in her purse.
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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
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Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
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All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.
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What is this 'mac and cheese'? Is that a black thing?
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There's alcohol in plant and tree.It must be Nature's planThat there should be in fair degreeSome alcohol in Man.
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Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same If I saw you in heaven?
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Only Congress can treat the gaping wound that is our broken immigration system.
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I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.
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With 'The Last Picture Show,' Peter Bogdanovich brought the script to the company that made it. They liked it, and they gave him the money he needed to make the film. He cast it with the actors that he thought were right for the parts. Now, it's the reverse.
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I would like to sit down with Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, PJ Harvey, and Bjork. That would be a good dinner in my mind. Strong women. I think I would enjoy that.
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Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character.
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If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.
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The miller's daughter of fourteen could not believe that high gentry behaved badly to their wives, but her mother instructed her - 'Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness...'
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I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
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I don't think you get anything good if you just accept everything the way it rolls out. You have to fight for what you believe in.
