Nicole Burnham Quotes
I feel my best when I have concrete goals and am actively taking steps to achieve them.
Quotes to Explore
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I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do.
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
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We run to win, not just to be in the race.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.
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I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.
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It's nerve wracking being in the stadium with so many people supporting.
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I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.
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Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.
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I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.
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When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.
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So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.
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I'm short, and I'm curvy, and so shopping is hard for me sometimes.
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Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.
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Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.
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Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves.
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Our country as a whole, no less than the Hastings College of Law, values tolerance, cooperation, learning, and the amicable resolution of conflicts. But we seek to achieve those goals through 'a confident pluralism that conduces to civil peace and advances democratic consensus-building,' not by abridging First Amendment rights.
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When you start out with goals - mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmically - you never exhaust that. I started doing that in the 1940s. It's still a challenge to discover what can be done with just those two elements.
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I feel my best when I have concrete goals and am actively taking steps to achieve them.
