Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa Quotes

Perhaps people only exist in my thoughts Perhaps the sky only exists in my mind. When will I wake up and to what

Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa

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• I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • People
  • Trying
  • Truth

• I worked as a telemarketer for an SAT-prep company. That was the worst of it, because I had to call people in post-Katrina New Orleans and offer them this very, very expensive SAT class. And I'm not even a good salesman.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Good
  • Company

• After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Truth
  • Parents

• To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Mind
  • Age

• Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • People
  • Life
  • Justice

• I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Mind
  • Sometimes
  • Speak

• My favorite Broadway show day-to-day, just for the experience, was 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.' The people were so much fun. It was a great show.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • People
  • Great
  • Experience

• Humour allows people to exhale a little.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Little
  • Humour

• Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • People
  • Government
  • Rich

• I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.

  

  Ed Balls
  • People
  • Think
  • Television

• It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Up
  • Interesting

• People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • People
  • Taken
  • Years

• What could be better than working with people you love?

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Love
  • Better

• I'm really a big fan of HBO and Showtime shows, so I wouldn't mind being on an edgy show... where I could challenge myself to do gritty stuff - a homeless guy or just some guy with a lot going on who's got problems. It's more fun to do as an actor.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • Mind
  • Fun
  • Guy

• See, when I went to the Olympics in '76, the gymnastics people knew that I was good, but everybody else, after I won, everybody was like, 'Where's she coming from? Who is she? What is Romania?'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Good
  • She

• I've been recording forever. I'm a watcher. I'm a stalker. I love everything about people. It's always been a passion for me to observe.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Passion
  • Forever

• When people around me are getting rattled, I may just close my eyes and do a breathing exercise.

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • May
  • Me

• Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • People
  • Trouble
  • Bear

• For documentaries, I think streaming plays an amazing role, but it's a problem when the one service you initially relied on to have an incredible buffet - 'Come and see a lot of world cinema, and the lives of ordinary people as well' - all of a sudden is narrowed down until it's just gladiator after gladiator - and bloodlust.

  

  Debra Granik
  • People
  • World
  • Amazing

• The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • People
  • Creative
  • Deals

• You're reducing the skilled people in the trade and you're creating long-term costs for the general public in a lot of ways.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • People
  • Trade
  • Skilled

• I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Girl

• I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • People
  • Long
  • War

• Perhaps people only exist in my thoughts Perhaps the sky only exists in my mind. When will I wake up and to what

  

  Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa
  • People
  • Mind
  • Sky