Nisio Isin (NisiOisiN) Quotes
“People who work for money are no good. People who work for honor are also no good. That leaves only one reason. Love!
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
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My family and friends treat me as they always have.
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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I have a few uniforms – depending on whether I'm going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me.
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Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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Only in death will I relinquish my belts.
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Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.
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We, some cast members and I, even went on a weekend trip together and spent the weekend at an inn, because we enjoy each other's company so much, and it was so cool.
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I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.
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The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
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I'm not on Facebook, and I don't tweet, but I know plenty of people who love both.
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But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
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“People who work for money are no good. People who work for honor are also no good. That leaves only one reason. Love!
