Nick Laird Quotes
The reason that the book exists is because there was a gap in you. You wrote the book to fulfill that gap in some way.
Nick Laird
Quotes to Explore
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
Wendell Berry
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
Baruch Spinoza
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T. E. Lawrence
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I think selfishly, as an actor, we always want to do more.
Mahershala Ali
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Whatever my father did were great films. I don't want to remake any of them.
Mahesh Babu
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As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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I always wanted to be an actor.
Dan Stevens
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.
Earl Warren
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Hence, ye profane! I hate ye all,Both the great vulgar and the small.
Abraham Cowley
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My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Is adult entertainment killing our children? Or is killing our children entertaining adults?
Brian Hugh Warner
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Obviously, Jo and I, as a couple, we just don't want to redline. You know, we don't want to run so hard after some dream or some goal only to find out that we've neglected the thing that means the very most to us, which is our marriage and our relationship.
Chip Gaines
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You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.
Billy Joel
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
Flannery O'Connor
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I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point.
Joan Didion
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The book is silent as long as you need silence, eloquent whenever you want discourse. He never interrupts you if you are engaged but if you feel lonely he will be a good companion. He is a friend who never deceives or falters you, and he is a companion who does not grow tired of you.
Al-Jahiz
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The reason that the book exists is because there was a gap in you. You wrote the book to fulfill that gap in some way.
Nick Laird
