Lesley Nicol Quotes
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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I try to lead by example.
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My dog Tucker likes to walk late at night because it is a good way to keep me awake. Apparently, the one time I took him for a stroll around midnight represented, to him, a commitment similar to marriage.
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I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat.
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As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
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My shoes aren't minimalist, but they are about a new simplicity.
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Jimmy Carter was - he still - he remains to this day America's most ex of ex-presidents. You just can't believe that we elected this doofus. He was a bright enough guy and sort of well-meaning. But he was about as prepared to be president of the United States as your goofy old uncle, you know, the one that memorises baseball statistics.
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Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read 'Nancy Drew' for hours after the designated 'lights out' time of night.
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I grew up the son of an acting teacher, so I was kind of introduced to all of these various methods early... I've never been really good at articulating how, what that process is in the way that Stanislavsky could.
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I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.
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The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.
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Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.
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Now here I was, half Jane Wyman, half Shirley Temple, and people began to stop me in the street and say, 'Don't worry, Barbara, it's all right, you won't lose your job.' It was really very touching.
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317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is, because mathematical reality is built that way.
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When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader.
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It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label...Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.
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I'm into women. I've always loved women.
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I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons.
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You can't decide whom to fall in love with. It just happens.
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I was told I wouldn't live past 30 or have children.
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There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
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I was painfully shy as a child.
