Nick Laird Quotes

In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.

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• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

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• I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.

  

  Adam Ferrara
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• So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
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• In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.

  

  Dan Butler
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• When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.

  

  Rachel Perry
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• People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

  

  Wayne Coyne
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• I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.

  

  Fiona Gubelmann
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• I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
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• Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

  

  Harold Coffin
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• An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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• Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

  

  Yael Grobglas
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• The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.

  

  Indira Gandhi
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• I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen?

  

  Karen Allen
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• When I go to the interviews and sit before a prospective employer, I'm going to try and look as employable as I can.

  

  Ian Watson
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• I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.

  

  Pat Summitt
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• We got bigger, much scarier competitors. We ended up with Microsoft, a company with all the money in the world, the way I look at those guys. And IBM, another company that, historically, dwarfed us.

  

  Safra A. Catz
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• The effect of depleted uranium, used by America in the Gulf War, is never referred to.

  

  Harold Pinter
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• I don't know any writer for whom it comes easily. Maybe John Updike - a story would just seem to come to him whole, you know, out of a personal experience. But the rest of us, I think, are not so lucky, and I had to work hard, yeah.

  

  Philip Roth
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• Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.

  

  Keith Hernandez

• The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• Women are more complicated communicators than men, who have a tendency to pronounce and bloviate, and that makes for better writing in talky work.

  

  John Allison
  • Work
  • Men
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• In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.

  

  Nick Laird
  • Work
  • Poetry
  • Mystification