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 think Chris Martin is younger than I am, but when I met him, I felt like I was talking to my father. It's so strange, that feeling when someone is that famous - you assume that they are either older or better.
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Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.
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Women need to think about where they've been, where they are, where they're going, and how they're going to get there.
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I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.
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I actually came out the year that AIDS hit the front pages. So there was this mixed feeling about it - excitement that life's finally begun, but it was completely tied up with mortality and danger and politics.
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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.
