Nik Halik (Nikos Halikopoulos) Quotes
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.
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Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
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I think you can overthink dealing with fame. To an extent, you've got to put yourself out there, but I feel like your work should really speak for itself, and I don't feel the need to go and make everyone like me because, to be honest, I'm not looking to be friends with the world. I'd much rather people watch the things that I'm in.
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When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.
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We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.
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If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.
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When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
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When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.
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Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.
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I think that I come off as, 'Nothing bothers me, I don't care! I'm funny and sassy.' But I'm deeply sensitive. Not only about myself but to others. Not to pat myself on the back, empathy is a quality I've cultivated over my life. It came naturally to me as a child.
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She waits for me; my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.
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I have a very small platform, and if I can use that to reach some kid who's teased for being effeminate or likes clothes, then I've done my job.
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That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.
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None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.
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I love playing moms. It's a lot easier than being a mom, I hear.
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I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.
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Dare to dream, live with passion. Make your life an epic extraordinary adventure!
