Nigel Benn Quotes
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We shred every day.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
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Art is the job of the privileged.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.
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I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
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To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.
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When you're first learning how to do eyeliner, it's really hard to get both lids the same. A good tip for when you're putting it on, is to make sure your elbow is on a table. Make sure your arm's really stable. And make sure you have an eye makeup q-tip to get that really sharp line.
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Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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I was supremely fortunate to do several projects that I'm really excited about. So within all that, there's a lot going on this year. I'm excited about 2016.
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Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for.
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I always work on my abs, every single day. As Miss Universe, exercising your abdominal muscles is mandatory!
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More than 25 miles off the coast of Massachusetts and only 14 miles long, Nantucket is, as Herman Melville wrote in 'Moby-Dick,' 'away off shore.'
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My heroes were all in the theatre.
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I have to get three pages done every day, and there's usually a point about 150 pages in where everything falls apart, where all the plans are for naught. The book has become something else, and I have a nervous breakdown, and then I submit to what the book has become, and I keep going, and that's a terrible and then a great time.
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Only astrophysicists new about the Internet 20 years ago. Today my cat has a website.
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If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
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I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.
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If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living in this piece of land, and in this piece of land in this time this is possible. For me, I almost think location first. It's time first - what year is it - then where are we, and then who is in it.
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This is so personal it makes Chris Eubank look like an old friend of mine by comparison.
