Nick Diaz (Nickolas Robert "Nick" Diaz) Quotes
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My dinner spot is usually in front of the TV. I'll grill a steak and whip up a salad and watch 'Hoarders'. I love it because a) I'm kind of voyeuristic, and b) every time I see an episode, I go to the one room where all my unpacked boxes wound up, and I throw out a box of stuff.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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I never left doo wop.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
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I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.
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I grew up in Christianity. They preach a lot that you should get married and be a wife and be a virtuous woman and all of that. So I was so eager to do that, and I didn't really take the time I needed to grow into my own. And I ended up running into a really bad situation. I didn't even really date my ex-husband. We just kind of jumped into it.
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Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
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The last thing we need is women on TV hating each other.
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
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You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.
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When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.
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The ethos of 50 years ago was that there was one kind of English that was right and everything else was wrong; one kind of access that was right and everything else was inferior. Then nobody touched language for two generations. When it gradually came back in, we didn't want to go back to what we did in the 1950s. There's a new kind of ethos now.
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You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.
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When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.
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All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.
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You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.
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My life’s a mess. I’m not afraid to admit it.
