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.Nick Laird
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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.
F. Murray Abraham -
I like to do the splits onstage.
Gavin DeGraw -
For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
Taylor Swift -
Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
Omar Bongo -
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.
M. Night Shyamalan -
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.
Randy Couture
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L.A.'s always been good to me.
Raekwon -
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
Samuel Butler -
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.
Danica McKellar -
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
Oliver Goldsmith -
She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.
Edgar Rice Burroughs -
The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.
Samuel Johnson
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The term many presupposes the term one, and the term one presupposes the term many.
Alfred North Whitehead -
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.
Jennifer Carpenter -
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.
Anthony Santos Aventura -
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?
Bianca Jagger -
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.
Jenny Lewis -
Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
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I'm trying to be number one. I'm doing the best I can and working the hardest I've ever worked to ensure I've got that number one spot.
Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco -
I'm mixed race, and it's often hard for me to fit into period pieces.
Jessica Parker Kennedy -
I'm sure people are badmouthing me. I think one of the interesting parts about the criticism has been the tenor of "how dare he." How dare an insider speak critically about other insiders?
Mark Leibovich -
You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.
Andre Agassi -
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.
Nick Laird