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.
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Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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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!
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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I'm the diva from the future. The next gig's on the moon. Catch me while you can.
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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.
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The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.
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Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
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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.
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I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.
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I'll never be Jennifer Lawrence or Tom Cruise, someone who can hold a movie and then be charming and charismatic doing promotion. I haven't got what they've got. But at least I'm now comfortable just being myself.
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.
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In a time of deceit telling the "truth" is a revolutionary act...Keep doing it.
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I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.
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First ask why, and decide whether something is worth doing. Only after that should you set about doing it as well as you can.
