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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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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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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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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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions.
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I loved 'Harry Potter' growing up. I'm dyslexic and a slow reader, but I could get through the thick ones in days!
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This is an industry that doesn't have the common cold... It has cholera.
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I remember feeling all right with myself until age 13. Then, I was getting off the bus one day and this guy called me Miss Piggy. That was the first time I ever really felt like I wasn't okay.
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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If the point of an activity is to be relaxing, changing that point to money isn't a great idea. Then you have to show up for it differently, and that can take the fun out of it, absolutely. I'm a big fan of turning your hobbies into businesses, but not if it's the hobby you do to relax and unplug.
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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.
