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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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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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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As a kid, I think I rearranged the rooms of almost every house on the block.
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They say it only takes an instant to have a dream; a dream can be compressed into hardtack.
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Like a page of music, like an upper air, Like a momentary color, in which swans Were seraphs, were saints, were changing essences. The west wind was the music, the motion, the force To which the swans curveted, a will to change, A will to make iris frettings on the blank.
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If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.
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I remember reading an interview with Adele, where she said that touring was the loneliest thing in the world. All of her band are hired, so, really, it's just her. I can't imagine what that must be like.
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Having an audience is almost like plugging me into an electrical outlet. People feed me so much of their energy. We have a great time. It's all about the fellowship.
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I've grown up feeling very American but being constantly bothered by people - there's internalized racism and feeling weird about being second-generation.
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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
