Nicholas Allen Jones (Nicky Wire) Quotes
If literature or music can make you think or become aware, then it's done something. That's what we've always wanted to do, just ignite sparks in people's minds. We can't offer a manifesto of how to make your life better.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
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You want your partner to objectify you.
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I'm not gonna play a part that doesn't instill some kind of fear in me. If I read a part, and suddenly, I'm thinking halfway through, 'I'm not sure I could get away with this,' I think of everything I can think of to keep me from doing it, that's the one I should do.
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I play golf, and I play chess, and sometimes I go to the gym. On the airplane or between acts when I do the performance, I play Candy Crush to forget what happens around me, just to be alone, not thinking... You need to clear your brain.
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I think legislation needs to put an end to doctors profiting on businesses to which they can funnel patients - that is business, not medicine. If you try to call it medicine, then it is corruption. Without legislation, it will keep happening.
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His speech is a burning fire.
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I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
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I think you do independent movies because you're looking to cut away from commercial movies.
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Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography.
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Engineering stimulates the mind.
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Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.
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I'm actually looking for a gallery, but the thing is some galleries just want to show the video work and some are just interested in the 2-D work. It has to be a gallery where I can do the 2-D collages, the video, and live performance, where it's not this weird conflict, where it can all move forward.
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If literature or music can make you think or become aware, then it's done something. That's what we've always wanted to do, just ignite sparks in people's minds. We can't offer a manifesto of how to make your life better.
