Nick Laird Quotes
The whole point of writing poetry or fiction is that you get to agonize over whatever it is you want to say, and you finally say it, and you get it as perfect as you can make it. Then you're forced to babble freestyle.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
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Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.
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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
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Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.
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If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.
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A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.
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I wrote my first textbook in 1970. It was called 'The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy,' and over the years, many students told me that they enjoyed reading it because there were so many stories in there; often just a paragraph or a page of something that happened in a group session.
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Once we have something that is no longer under control, once technological development is yanked out of our hands, it doesn't have to continue to be beneficial to humans.
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Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.
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I joined PETA for minks and dogs. I need my beef, my chicken, my seafood.
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My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.
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While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.
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Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.
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I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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During slumber's magic reignOther times shall live again;
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I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called 'FMR,' so we have a common interest in design.
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Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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In elections, the undecided vote is usually the deciding factor.
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But I think we need the international market.
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The whole point of writing poetry or fiction is that you get to agonize over whatever it is you want to say, and you finally say it, and you get it as perfect as you can make it. Then you're forced to babble freestyle.
