Nick Willing Quotes
I'm one of those people that, when I read or get encapsulated by a world, I want to live and breathe and be there.Nick Willing
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly.
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Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with these genetic tests, it's not like you're condemned to automatically get the disease or the syndrome. There's a lot of factors in play there.
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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
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There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.
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Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.
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I would say as a journalist, I would envision travelling to other countries that have had to reckon with their past and see how they've done it: what worked, what didn't work, finding characters that would tell the story of how that process was done.
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I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.
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I love acting, but I'm not too crazy about money or fame. They don't drive me.
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I'm a home girl. I like to stay home.
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In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
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My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.
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Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.
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The maximum expression of running dogs is the Iditarod. You enter a state of primitive exaltation, and you never return. You're never normal again.
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Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.
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There's inevitably something missing when you grow up in this kind of an environment when your parents travel a lot. When your father is famous, you are looked at and expected of. There are standards you need to meet.
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Movements such as the Pan-Germanic, Pan-Islamic, or Pan-Negro justify themselves on the basis of their common language, or their common religion, or their color. But since the undefined masses involved in these movements lack the essential and real unity of background or community of purpose, they become a grave danger to general peace.
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Reforming PERA will strengthen and improve Colorado's all-important long term standing with credit rating agencies.
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I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.
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I once jokingly told someone that every book is like a relationship. They're four or five years long - that's not so bad. They're serious. They demand a lot of attention. But I remember thinking that I wanted to have one with someone who's not so crazy and peculiar and demanding.
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I'm one of those people that, when I read or get encapsulated by a world, I want to live and breathe and be there.
Nick Willing
