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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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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Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?
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I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding after having kids, like Mary King, but people say that you lose your nerve after you have kids. It's the risk.
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Speech in York (2 June 1973), quoted in The Times (4 June 1973), p. 2.
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If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Find something else, life's too short.
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Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom we should have known nothing if their distinguished opponents had taken no notice of them. There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.
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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.
