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.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
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My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think selfishly, as an actor, we always want to do more.
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Whatever my father did were great films. I don't want to remake any of them.
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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.
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I always wanted to be an actor.
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.
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Hence, ye profane! I hate ye all,Both the great vulgar and the small.
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My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes.
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Is adult entertainment killing our children? Or is killing our children entertaining adults?
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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.
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Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.
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Time ... thou ceaseless lackey to eternity.
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It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.
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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.
