Alessandro Nivola Quotes
You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoor Championships to being world outdoor gold medallist.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
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I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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I like to think I've done a lot of different kinds of roles, but obviously I have done quite a lot of comedies.
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When I write short fiction or novellas, I like to leave a hint of the fantastic, of the unreal. If you write a completely fantastic novel with ghosts and everything, the effect is less powerful than if you portray an absolutely realistic situation and, in the middle of this, you put a layer of fantasy, of mystery.
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Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
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Eventually you get bored and you want to work.
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It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.
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You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.
