Nikki Gemmell Quotes

Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self. ...You think of the two types of aloneness you've known recently: this wonderful, sparkly, soul-refreshing type, and the despairing loneliness that sucks the breath from your life.

Nikki Gemmell

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• I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Pain
  • Moves
  • Talks

• I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Film
  • Gun
  • Choose

• I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life

• I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Game
  • Same
  • Say

• They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Different
  • Long
  • Now

• When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Help
  • Past
  • Community

• I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Always
  • Model
  • Singer

• When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Wise
  • Personality

• I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the White House. Not only black people; a lot of white people thought that, too, but particularly black people.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • People
  • Family
  • House

• The addition of vinaigrette to freshly roasted vegetables gives them a freshness and juiciness they don't normally have; the acidity brings out new shades of flavour, too.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • New
  • Vegetables
  • Shades

• Remorse - Regret that one waited so long to do it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Long
  • Regret

• Some of the stuff, I absolutely don't remember recording it, it's been so long. But I do like to try to throw in something a little different for the audience once in a while. Because a lot of these people who come to see have come back many, many times.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• You want to evaluate future borrowers, but in order to train an algorithm that will help you identify future defaults, you have to train it and evaluate it on past data.

  

  Anthony Goldbloom
  • Help
  • Future
  • Past

• I am uncomfortable with Sarah Palin. I have nothing against her. I'll say she's a very talented woman. Yet I think she owes John McCain her gratitude and loyalty.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • She
  • Gratitude
  • Loyalty

• One of the biggest turnoffs is being presented with an idea that's already, to a degree, complete. That's not an adventure, and it's not a learning experience. It's more of a chore. Then you become a technician with taste, as opposed to an explorer and an author.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Experience
  • Learning
  • Adventure

• The process was remarkably cathartic. I'd sit and listen to my father's voice - having not heard some of these tapes for 30 years and hearing his voice laying me down for a nap, our giggles and cooking dinner - and I remembered all those wonderful days. Normal days.

  

  Jennifer Grant
  • Father
  • Cooking

• There was no theater in my high school. I think even our art program was cut - it was so bad. I didn't even know that was a possibility in college or in high school; I hadn't even thought of it. It was pretty negligent. My father has run a bulldozer all of his life, and my mom is in real estate.

  

  Boyd Holbrook
  • Life
  • Real
  • School

• My hockey is good, but my ice skating is terrible. It's a bit of a mess to watch!

  

  Margot Robbie
  • Good
  • Hockey

• Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Life
  • Work
  • Play

• Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, pp. 104–06

  

  Oswald Spengler

• 'Talullah' is a movie I'm really proud of. Sian Heder is the director/writer, and I think she's extraordinarily talented. I think it was a beautiful story.

  

  Allison Janney
  • She
  • Movie
  • Beautiful

• Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self. ...You think of the two types of aloneness you've known recently: this wonderful, sparkly, soul-refreshing type, and the despairing loneliness that sucks the breath from your life.

  

  Nikki Gemmell
  • Life
  • Loneliness
  • Breath