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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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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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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I feel like the phone was in my way. So I got rid of the phone to focus.
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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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I don't think I'm conscious of most of the things I've drawn from football, because they're so ingrained in me now... understanding that the discipline and the routine and the regimentation to be successful.
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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 would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
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Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.
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I've taken thousands of shots in the corner. It's all mental. That's all it comes down to, is to be ready, wait for your opportunity, and execute.
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I say let's not gamble with American jobs and America's future.
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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.
