Nicola Morgan Quotes
What he has lost is everything that hasn’t happened to him, everything that he is not, but might have been.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
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It's been so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.
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I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.
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Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.
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'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.
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If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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I am just back from South Sudan, one of the world's most fragile nations. For years, I have been moved by the kind people who maintain hope that they will live to see peace. My heart has ached for them, as they have endured pain and violence that make such hope feel out of reach.
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So you have to take the good with the bad.
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History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.
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By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.
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Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them.
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The poet is a god, or, the young poet is a god. The old poet is a tramp.
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And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned.
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After school, I got a job in a shop in Hollywood and shared an apartment with a friend. I promptly lost my job and got evicted from my apartment, and that happened several times.
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The Obama administration seems to have lost the will to win. The terrorists have not.
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In The New Poetry I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.
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What he has lost is everything that hasn’t happened to him, everything that he is not, but might have been.
