Nigel Pearson Quotes
I'm a human being and I will make mistakes from time to time but what I will say is that any mistakes I make are very honest ones.
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
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I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.
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There are so many songs in me that haven't been born yet. So I can't call myself a genius, but I never turn away a compliment, and I feel like I'm on my way to that mountain.
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I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.
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Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.
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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
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I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.
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If Caravaggio was a photographer today, I would love to work with him. I love his dark vision - I have a dark vision.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished 'The Road', I started it straight away and didn't put it down until I finished - it was such an achievement and relief to know that I could read, comprehend and, most importantly, enjoy a book!
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I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.
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We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died longe ago.Even so, a faint glimmer of that warm memory still claimed a part of my heart. And when death claim me, no doubt I would walk along by that faint light in the brief instant before being flung once again into the abyss of nothingness.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?
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A couple of times we make a mistake by being so aggressive, ... We come up and we probably had a chance to get the guy down, but we try to explode on him and miss a tackle.
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I sort of feel that I have to constantly be really, really honest with the way I feel, and I have to get that out.
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I'm a human being and I will make mistakes from time to time but what I will say is that any mistakes I make are very honest ones.
