Nicole Burnham Quotes
So the best decision I ever made? Learning when to say no and then having the self-confidence to walk away. There have been instances when the payoff for making those hard decisions has taken a decade or more, but it has always come.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.
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Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me it really made a big difference.
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There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.
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These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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I literally couldn't walk down the street; I slept for 16 hours a day, was in chronic pain, had blackouts, never-ending heart palpitations, unbearable stomach issues, constant headaches - the list goes on.
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
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The day of parts of the country hating each other, or rivalries like that... I feel like that's dead.
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The premiere of Lynne Ramsay's film of 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' at the Cannes film festival provides an apt juncture at which to celebrate the miraculous power - not of film but of fiction. Lo, I have created a monster.
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I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while.
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To me, leadership has always been about doing what's right. Because when you've had to write your blood type on your boots, you aren't afraid to make the right calls.
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In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.
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Being Indie wasn't a style decision anymore, which it would have been, in part, when I was really young. It would have been like an aesthetic decision, and a coolness-based decision.
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I was born at Rotten Row in Glasgow and brought up in Loch Lomond near a small place called Gartocharn. And it's a bit like anyone: where you're brought up, you have an irresistible attraction to that place; it defines who you are.
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It has given me an insight into what it's like as an actor to come into a show in the middle of a production and fit into a group that's already established.
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I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
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So the best decision I ever made? Learning when to say no and then having the self-confidence to walk away. There have been instances when the payoff for making those hard decisions has taken a decade or more, but it has always come.
