Nigel Slater Quotes
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic desire for more progress and reform.
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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.
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Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.
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Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
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When writers for adults contemplate Venice, they behold decay, dereliction and death. Thomas Mann, Daphne du Maurier, L. P. Hartley and Salley Vickers have all dispatched hapless protagonists to Italy, where they see Venice - and die.
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I think that we are so challenged as women to be everything and do everything and make it look easy.
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Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.
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For me, the main goal is loving music and experiencing the great music-making with the orchestra, which is the great reason why I conduct, and that is the main goal.
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I have serious hearing loss. I'm challenged if I don't have my hearing aids in.
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I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city.
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I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work.
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I'm in the booth and first of all, I'm from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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People just get kicks out of making other people sad.
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My first song, 'Just Becuz,' was co-written by the awesome Baby Bash.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.
