Nigel Pearson Quotes
Management brings the best and worst out of me, and I think you have to find a distinction between what is work and what isn't work, because football can take over your life.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists.
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I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to 16mm Bolex cameras, Nagra sound recorders, Arriflex cameras. We even had an Oxberry animation stand!
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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You can't look at the dollar and say, 'I'm not what I dreamed of being unless I do this type of movie and it's a blockbuster that gives me this amount of dollars.' That's not good.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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My parents are my major supporters. I look up to Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey. They have all opened my mind and helped me with my craft.
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In a phrase: I always hope it keeps getting better.
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The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, 'I wish you hadn’t made every line funny. It’s so depressing.'
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Nothing moves except my eyes and my hand occasionally turning a page, and yet something not exactly defined by the word 'text' unfurls, progresses, grows and takes root as I read. But how does this process take place?
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The usual reason companies are funded or valued on the stock market for not having a current profit is because the investors believe there will be a future profit.
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I believe that true art is universal in its appeal.
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The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
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As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.
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Management brings the best and worst out of me, and I think you have to find a distinction between what is work and what isn't work, because football can take over your life.
