Nicole Nielsen Horanyi Quotes
Stay humble to the craft and never forget how much it actually takes to be the main character of a documentary.
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.
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If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
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I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing.
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I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.
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From a person whose living depends on other people buying her creative work, this may sound odd, but one of my favorite things about the steampunk subculture is its do-it-yourself attitude.
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I'm from Wisconsin so I always feel a little nauseous about begging and trying to trick people into liking me.
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I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves.
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In terms of politics, I just look at people's policies, and sometimes I agree with something, sometimes I won't.
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When I worked with Bill Nighy on 'Wrath of the Titans,' he said to me, 'There's one thing you can promise me, and that's never, ever, ever read your reviews.'
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When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.
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What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.
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He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.
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But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see the world through that person's eyes and have a strong sense of the inner logic of their acts and decisions, wacky or wrongheaded though they might be. In that sense, I think there's some of me in all of them.
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The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Stay humble to the craft and never forget how much it actually takes to be the main character of a documentary.
