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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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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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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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
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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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One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
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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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Of course I love the action. I absolutely love doing action movies; it's what makes me tick, but I think my dream role is a movie that Will Smith's company has called 'Paper Wings.'
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Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.
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When Music, heavenly maid, was young,While yet in early Greece she sung.
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I worried so long that I would sing to empty bars my whole life. I was singing my guts out; there would be five people into it.
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I actually met one of my business partners [Neal Dodson] at the Governor's School summer program, so we've known each other since we were 15 and 16 years old, and we both ended up at Carnegie Mellon together. He started working for a producer out of school after a few years, and then we started the company together.
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For years, I've been painting black men as a way to respond to the reality of the streets. I've asked black men to show up in my studio in the clothes that they want to be wearing. And often times, those clothes would be the same trappings people would see on television and find menacing.
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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
