Nick Laird Quotes
I think all writing is an attempt to complicate and subvert the dominant narrative. Writing personalizes statistics. It puts a face and a name on a number. I suppose in that sense it's always political.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
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For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.
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The food in south India is the food that I really love because it reminds me of home.
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With a play, there's more of a definable arc because of the nature of theater: You know, there's no editing, so there's something more natural about the arc a character follows in a play. I think theater is more an actor's medium, whereas film is more a director's medium, because that's who controls the final feel of the film.
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At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.
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Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
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When somebody loves youIt's no good unless he loves you - all the wayHappy to be near youWhen you need someone to cheer you - all the way.
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Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.
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I'm not mean.
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There is absolutely a gap in the market for thirty something women and, the more I look at it, the more I feel there needs to be a sense of ease and choice.
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What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
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I really would like to start a family as well. Whether I can balance the two or have to decide one or the other way, I'm not sure what will happen.
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I always insist on my jeans being ironed. Is that a problem?
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I've had paranoid panic attacks.
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I'm a Libertarian. I'm liberty, justice for all, liberty for all.
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The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.
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The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid to its enforcement in bills of mortality. Each disease has in many instances been denoted by three or four terms, and each term has been applied to as many different diseases ; vague, inconvenient names have been employed, or complications have been registered, instead of primary diseases. The nomenclature is of as much importance in this depart- ment of inquiry as weights and measures in the physical sciences, and should be settled without delay.
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Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.
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Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.
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I think all writing is an attempt to complicate and subvert the dominant narrative. Writing personalizes statistics. It puts a face and a name on a number. I suppose in that sense it's always political.
