Geoff Nicholson Quotes
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
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I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
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If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well.
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If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.
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It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.
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I don't see myself in the political realm.
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For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.
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I've always loved fashion, but it's not what I set out to do.
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To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something.
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I mistrust illuminations: what we take for a discovery is very often only a familiar thought that we have not recognized.
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My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didn't learn the guitar until I was 24 years old.
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While the American people have had a big heart, President Trump has had a big mouth, and he has used it to insult the people of Puerto Rico.
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Folks, tomorrow America will get to hear those four words we've been waiting for: 'Former president George Bush'.
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I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.
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I really love being busy because I am - feel like I am at my best when I am busy.
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
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Words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space.
