Alessandro Nivola Quotes
I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.
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I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
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Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
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It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.
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I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.
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No cricket should be played for at least a month anywhere in the world after a World Cup.
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Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.
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There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.
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Euro Disney is not my vibe. I can't really deal with Disney, man. It's not my thing.
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I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share.
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I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.
