Nico Santos (Nico Wellenbrink) Quotes
My intent when I moved to L.A. was to get in good with the comedy clubs and, eventually, try to break into Comedy Central and have my half hour special.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
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By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.
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Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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Yes, I help my kids with their homework. But I also get bored doing it. I will sit and listen to my children pontificate and discuss their ideas till the day is long because it warms my heart, but I really don't want to do math!
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I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.
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I try to be a good father, and my kids are the most important thing in my life.
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I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'
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19. This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.
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There's no other art form in the world that affects me more.
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One who walks from fire to fire dies from the cold.
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I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.
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I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think they're really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I don't see how you can be like that.
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In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.
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I treated the first few books as a very long journalistic exercise. I thought of every chapter as an article that needed to be finished.
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Everybody wants blockbusters. I like to see a few pictures now and then that have to do with people and have relationships, and that's what I want to do films about. I don't want to see these sci-fi movies, and I don't want to do one of those. I don't understand it.
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There's nothing that compares to being in a band with your best friends. We're so comfortable together, we understand each other. It feels, like, normal. Whereas solo period felt like I was trying to be something, and play a role, and pretend.
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I went into rehab December 14th, 1996, and got out eight months later? Then I went into a sober living place where I stayed for three months. I've been clean for a good year and a half.
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My intent when I moved to L.A. was to get in good with the comedy clubs and, eventually, try to break into Comedy Central and have my half hour special.
