Alessandro Nivola Quotes
I've never felt that I've had some great fashion sense of my own - I tend to wear what my wife tells me to wear.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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I eat healthy and don't go by a diet chart. The breakfast is usually heavy, complemented with short frequent meals. My dinner is high on proteins and low on carbohydrates.
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
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I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.
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An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God.
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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
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Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.
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In the old days, before there was such a thing as film schools, directors learned the camera by watching other directors, and learning from their own dailies, and listening to the cameraman, and seeing what would work. Some of those guys could cut their movies in their head.
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We have to truly become a united people of the United States of America, and divisiveness cannot make that happen.
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Nihilism is.not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one shoulder to the plough; one destroys.
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When it's good it's great, it's really great.
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I've never felt that I've had some great fashion sense of my own - I tend to wear what my wife tells me to wear.
