Nick Morgan (Nicholas H. Morgan) Quotes

First ask why, and decide whether something is worth doing. Only after that should you set about doing it as well as you can.

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• Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Time
  • Day
  • Laugh

• Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Live
  • Always
  • Moment

• I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Live
  • Art

• I've only twice in my life come across someone with both high IQ and high EQ naturally; and that was because their parents were super high EQ, and the parents just EQ'd the hell out of them. They're inevitably very successful because now you've got someone who's sharper than the average person and well-rounded, too.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Life
  • High
  • Parents

• In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was born in June 1954. My parents, thrilled, showered me with love.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Experience
  • Compassion

• It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Fool
  • More
  • Take

• Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Someone

• It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Way
  • Thought
  • Hollywood

• Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Perfect
  • Easier
  • Moderation

• I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Up
  • Church
  • Lot

• I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Writing
  • Reader

• I'm the diva from the future. The next gig's on the moon. Catch me while you can.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Future
  • Moon
  • Diva

• There are days when I literally have to eat 17 plates of food - it's intense. It's about moderation. You just need a few bites to get the gist of a dish.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • You
  • Food
  • Need

• The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Real
  • America
  • Conflict

• Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Doing
  • Because
  • Hospitality

• A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Years

• Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • War
  • Help
  • Better

• I know it sounds weird, but the food that I eat, it doesn't make a big difference, and it never has. So, I've saved a ton of money not buying a lot of alcohol, not going out to restaurants too much. So, I think it's part of our culture, and it's part of a social activity more than anything else.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Food

• The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Career
  • Control

• I would say I'm self-taught, but Corinne Day made me less conscious of myself. I was 15, and she'd make me take off my top, and I'd cry. After five years, you get used to it, and you're not self-conscious anymore.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Day
  • Cry
  • Conscious

• Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Doing

• I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Sorry
  • Muslim

• First ask why, and decide whether something is worth doing. Only after that should you set about doing it as well as you can.

  

  Nick Morgan
  • Doing
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