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.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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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'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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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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My life is short. I can't listen to banality.
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I do think there's a lot more we can do on the life agenda.
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I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.
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I never strike out at any life form. The only things I attack are icons of conspicuous consumption. People put objects in front of their life, in front of anything that has real importance. They make this 'thing' their God.
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I've also grown as an actor as I've got older in life. I've learnt how to go to work, immerse myself 100 per cent in the character and, at the end of the day, take it all off and go back, get a nice bubble bath, have a nice massage and realise that is not my life. And that feels good.
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It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of a specific activity or method. It must always relate to a better life for everyone.
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Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.
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I don't feel I've arrived home until I get on the beach. All my life, the theater of the sea has been a very strong thing.
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I can't claim my grandfather's work has influenced mine directly, but his life certainly inspired me to follow this path.
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The hardest thing is that I never do anything the same way twice, and when I'm on the air, I'm very unscripted, and I'm very comfortable in that role. So me being scripted is not a comfortable place for me.
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Many kids think unless they go to one of these great Ivy League schools, which I was lucky enough to go to later, that they won't get the same kind of learning. But I learned just the opposite lesson; that my best teachers were not at Harvard University.
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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.
