Nixon Waterman Quotes

Though life is made up of mere bubbles 'tis better than many have, for while we've a whole lot of troubles the most of them never occur.

Nixon Waterman

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• I'm an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life - I'm looking for a slight formality, for a place where you can never be overdressed.

  

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• I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.

  

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• I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

  

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• The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

  

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• Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

  

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• Music is everywhere and in everything! I draw my inspiration from the day to day activities of my life!

  

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• I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.

  

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• We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.

  

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• Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

  

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• I personally think you can have a really rich and full life with no abs. Abs are for wimps.

  

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• The slums are not a place of despair. Its inhabitants are all working towards a better life.

  

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• Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

  

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• In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

  

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• I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life. That's how my parents were; my parents have been teachers for as long as I've known 'em. I was worried that I'd gotten into something that I was going to hate.

  

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• It's okay to lose. Losing teaches you something. Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting.

  

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• As for life's tragedies, our love will defeat them. Love is the most effective cure. In the crevices of disasters, happiness lies like a diamond in a mind, so let us instill in ourselves the wisdom of love.

  

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• Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gate to all mystery.

  

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• I do body conditioning, spinning and yoga. On the treadmill, I'll do intervals of running flat and then on incline. I'll do that for an hour.

  

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• Though life is made up of mere bubbles 'tis better than many have, for while we've a whole lot of troubles the most of them never occur.

  

  Nixon Waterman
  • Life
  • Troubles
  • Bubbles