Nicole Blackman Quotes
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.
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I do have the sense that, although there may be no one way to write a novel, there are many novelists who are in fact part of some sort of larger literary community, whether in the form of a writing group or an MFA program, to name two of the more common forms.
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I moved to New York - I attended NYU, did a BFA in Acting at NYU. I was really into hip-hop, so I started battling, like '8 Mile.' I used to rap battle.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
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Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
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I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
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The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.
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Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.
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If it's an amazing role, I'll do anything.
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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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I don't really love roller coasters because I feel like they're filled with germs and make me nauseous.
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People love to play expectations games, and that is always bad for collaboration internal to a team, with your manager, or externally with customers.
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I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.
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There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the '60s and '70s - but they're so itchy and hot. It's not worth it!
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If nobody quotes you, you haven't said a thing worth saying.
