Nick Zinner Quotes
Photography has always been important to me for that, being able to make sense of something or understand something or remember something or laugh at something.
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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I like to be loved or hated – I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.
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Don't worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live.
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It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.
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At nine years old, I was presented an opportunity to move to Toronto to train for pairs dancing. As soon as I heard that that's what it entailed, I was out of there. It's like a past life. I hung up my skates and never looked back.
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My mum didn't really let me watch TV until I was about 5 years old.
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Almost everything that we do that is worth doing is done in the first place in the mind's eye.
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Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody.Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about?Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things.
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If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being onstage in front of an audience.
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I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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If I could jump right from one project, have 2 days to rest, and jump right into the next one, I would.
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Do you think anybody knows that I'm Irish?
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Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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Photography has always been important to me for that, being able to make sense of something or understand something or remember something or laugh at something.
