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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Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
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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 think it's essential to engage with your followers. I always used to email bloggers, and no one ever replied, so I try to reply to every comment and question, and although sometimes I regret it when I'm sat on Instagram til 3 A.M., it's worth it.
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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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The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.
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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.
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Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.
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There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to oneself. It disappears as a dream disappears. Perhaps it is all nothing but a dream.
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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.
