Lesley Nicol Quotes

I was painfully shy as a child.

Lesley Nicol

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 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.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Like

• My mom has always been very open, very liberal. So I grew up with that, and I can appreciate everything that she did and went through and was exposed to.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Up
  • She
  • Mom

• I try to lead by example.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Try
  • Lead
  • Lead By Example

• To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Mind
  • Why

• To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Men
  • Power
  • Simple

• 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.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Time
  • Good
  • Night

• 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.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Done
  • Know
  • Couple

• If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Children
  • She
  • Shoes

• Obviously, you need talent to do well in your sport, but I think hard work goes a long way. You need to be lucky within the sport too, though. In badminton, you can benefit from good draws and people getting injured.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

  

  Wendy Carlos
  • Change
  • Learn
  • Grow

• My shoes aren't minimalist, but they are about a new simplicity.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Shoes
  • New
  • Simplicity

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Believe
  • America
  • Guy

• 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.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Night
  • Child

• 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.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Good
  • Teacher

• I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Good
  • Audience
  • Smell

• I've seen too many sunrises, as far as the walk of shame, staying out too late doing very bad things.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Bad
  • Doing
  • Walk

• The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Like
  • Become
  • Obsession

• Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Future
  • Die
  • Rich

• Learning to domesticate the horse was a sort of energy revolution.

  

  David Christian
  • Energy
  • Learning
  • Revolution

• Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.

  

  Bill James
  • Real
  • Violence

• I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dress

• I'm not a writer that writes every day. I just kind of have ideas. I jot them down when I have them, and when I have enough, I just start. And for me, I start more around noon, and I'm all about feeling. Once there's a theme, I can't not write.

  

  Dee Rees
  • Feeling

• I had always been told that you shouldn't clean the litter box when you're pregnant, because of your cat. And I think that is overblown - unless you have, like, three kittens in your house that are living outside and eating raw meat, this shouldn't really be a significant source of concern.

  

  Emily Oster
  • House
  • Cat

• I was painfully shy as a child.

  

  Lesley Nicol