Nigel Gibson Quotes
Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.
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The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
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I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
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I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
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I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
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Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.
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Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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The biggest klutz would be myself, so if I could offer help to myself I would. I'm the most off my game most often.
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I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.
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The sin of Kibr (arrogance) is actually worse than many of the sins that we would be advising [other] people about.
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I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.
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Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to a contemporary period.
