Nick Laird Quotes
Most of the poems I write go through forty versions and then stay in a file on my computer. I'm not very good at sending stuff out or feeling that something is ready to send out and I never have been. Part of the problem is that as soon as a poem is finished, it stops being all that interesting to me.
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
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L.A.'s always been good to me.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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When I was 15, I had a crush on this guy who was really good at magic, and so I learned to juggle, thinking it would impress him. I spent hours and hours practicing, planning to show him. And then I never even saw him again. But at least I learned how to juggle.
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
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Hopefully, there's a place in music for Tinted Windows. If we're really trying to be iconic, we should just stop right now. If one of us could die, that would also help. But I don't think anybody wants that gig.
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She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.
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The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.
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The term many presupposes the term one, and the term one presupposes the term many.
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I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.
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When Aventura began, there was a lot of salsa and merengue, and we said, 'Let's just do what we do.' Then Aventura blew up, but urban was in its prime.
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Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?
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I went to a high school reunion a couple years ago and realized that the kids who were the most unusual in high school are the ones who are the most interesting now and the ones who were popular are dull and boring.
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We hunger for connection to a larger community.
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Kids love to be silly, they love to laugh, so I think it was natural for my kids to like the sort of books that I write - and it's the only kinds of books I'm capable of writing.
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I love to fight. I love the preparation. I love to learn new things, always overcoming myself.
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If you have a great message but no great way to entertain, people won't want to hear it.
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Most of the poems I write go through forty versions and then stay in a file on my computer. I'm not very good at sending stuff out or feeling that something is ready to send out and I never have been. Part of the problem is that as soon as a poem is finished, it stops being all that interesting to me.
