Nick Willing Quotes
Cinema was always taking the big risks, and TV was ambling along behind, just trying to touch the hem.Nick Willing
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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I'm not one of those people that wears something once and tosses it aside. I wear my shoes until they beg to be thrown away. Parting is such sweet sorrow - and then it's onto the next pair.
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For me, one of the important things about keeping vocally healthy is warming up and making sure I'm aware where my voice is at, drinking lots of water and getting plenty of sleep, and just taking care of myself with exercise and eating healthy.
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I'm personally looking for artists that are along the lines of today's pop stars. Whether it be a Rihanna or a Justin Bieber or a Kanye West or a Beyonce or a Lady Gaga, I'm looking for talent that's like that, that's what I love.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.
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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'
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Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has had an American nuclear family can tell you, this was a relief to all concerned.
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A God all mercy is a God unjust.
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I was born and raised in the Bronx, and growing up here, you would go down the block, and on one corner you would hear bachata, on another corner some salsa, and of course there was hip-hop and R&B all over the place. So for me, it is very organic to have these combinations.
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I have asked people repeated follow-ups for a while and asked people uncomfortable questions for a while. I just try to hold people accountable.
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I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have to communicate to people very far from me.
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People always come up to me and say, 'you should do standup.' It's nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun.
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When I see people sad, I'm sad.
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Hopefully, there's a place in music for Tinted Windows. If we're really trying to be iconic, we should just stop right now. If one of us could die, that would also help. But I don't think anybody wants that gig.
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The role I see for my books is trying to think through the consequences of various things because a lot of the issues around technology and the nuances in it are not usually widely appreciated. That's how I view my writing as I sort of explore this terra incognita ahead of us in an effort to try to understand where we might be heading.
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People always try to be perfect. That's why they don't start anything. Perfection is the lowest standard in the world. Because if you're trying to be perfect, you know you can't be. So what you really have is a standard you can never achieve. You want to be outstanding, not perfect.
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There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I've taken a little bit from both.
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If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.
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Cinema was always taking the big risks, and TV was ambling along behind, just trying to touch the hem.
Nick Willing
