Alessandro Nivola Quotes
I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.
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In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
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Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.
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I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
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Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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When you fight you are in a situation where failure can happen. This chance of failure forges your character in many ways.
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I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence.
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The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.
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It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.
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Although just being employed as an actor is a big thing, I'm not sure I'd be satisfied playing the same character for 30 years; it's not why I want to do this for a living.
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I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.
