Alessandro Nivola Quotes

Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.

Alessandro Nivola

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• I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.

  

  Karen Black
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.

  

  Imelda May
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  • Inspired
  • Wind

• If I can't do high kicks or dance in it, then I won't wear it.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • High
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  • Then

• That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Life
  • Music
  • Friends

• Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Great
  • Important
  • Decisions

• An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Missing
  • Form
  • Last

• The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it's cheaper, and it has a great image, and you just can't beat it at night. It's pulling in variations of colors; it's pulling in lights from 40 miles away - a candle would be seen.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Words
  • Thoughts
  • Emotions

• There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • True
  • Me
  • Single

• Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Life
  • Find
  • Grace

• I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Ideas
  • Goals
  • Dreams

• Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Success

• It wasn’t so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up
  • Bad

• Layton: After all these years of inaction, will the Prime Minister finally get something done and do something the former government would not do and that is to cancel the subsidies to big oil and big ass-I mean big gas and start putting-Stephen Harper: Mr. Speaker, I promise to get to the bottom of it.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Done
  • Promise

• More money means litigating, more player-hating. Got a cell at the pen, for me waiting. Is this my fate?

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Money
  • Fate
  • Litigating

• I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

• Our opponents like to try and make you believe that Conservatism is a privilege of the few. But Conservatism conserves all that is great and best in our national heritage.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
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  • Believe

• St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving the Creator for the sake of the creature. What punishment would that subject deserve who, while his king was giving him a command, contemptuously turned his back upon him to go and transgress his orders? This is what the sinner does; and this is punished in hell with the pain of loss, that is, the loss of God, a punishment richly deserved by him who in this life turns his back upon his sovereign good.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.

  

  Benjamin Butler
  • Man
  • Selfish
  • Active

• My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive, and excited, and that seems to me to be the most important thing right now.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Community
  • Right
  • Aim

• Sexiness is about confidence and individuality. I can't keep my eyes off the women you see in cities like London, New York and Paris - the way they carry themselves and put themselves together are always so unique.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Women
  • Together
  • Eyes

• I have a special attachment to 'Bitter Sweet' and feel grateful because it introduced me to people in the film industry overseas and helped me experience Hollywood.

  

  Lee Byung-hun
  • People
  • Experience
  • Sweet

• Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.

  

  Alessandro Nivola
  • Selfish