Lesley Nicol Quotes

I have been invited to do something called 'Celebrity MasterChef' in England, which, of course, I can't do. It's complete nonsense. You have to be a decent cook to begin with. I'd be the joke one.

Lesley Nicol

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• Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • People
  • Politics
  • Ethical

• I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • Way
  • Humor
  • Laugh

• I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Plan
  • Draw

• People always ask me if I'm nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesn't seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • People
  • Me
  • Weird

• I remember going to the Gap when I was in the fifth grade, and I desperately wanted a pair of blue jeans. I was with my dad, and I remember picking up the jeans, looking at them, and thinking that they had to fit me. But there was nothing that fit me. This was before the age of stretch, so I was trying on adult Gap.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Most people, even most doctors, learn that the placenta is a nice, tight seal that prevents anything in the mother's body from invading the fetus, and vice-versa. That's mostly true. But the placenta doesn't seal off the baby perfectly, and every so often, something slips across.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • True
  • Mother

• I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Great
  • School
  • Art

• Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Progress
  • Life Is A

• I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!

  

  Sally Field
  • Time
  • Career
  • Respect

• Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • True
  • You
  • Wisdom

• I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Great
  • Find
  • New York

• I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • People
  • Know
  • Shy

• I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in spooky old New England, where a lot of American folk legends came from.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Work
  • American
  • King

• A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • School
  • Football
  • Study

• When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Walls

• The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Men
  • Age
  • Man

• There was no time when I lived anywhere longer than two years. I was always a social outcast. Maybe I didn't care what people thought because I was like, 'Well, I probably won't stick around here for too long.'

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

  

  Bruce Sterling

• For me, spiritual practice is a lot closer to art than science.

  

  Liz Williams
  • Art
  • Science
  • Spiritual

• All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Hate
  • Desire
  • Paradox

• I find that with period pieces, you're sort of able to really take advantage of what's around you because prop-wise, wardrobe-wise and location-wise, it's all so specific due to that time.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Time
  • You
  • Period

• Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

  

  Emma Goldman

• I have been invited to do something called 'Celebrity MasterChef' in England, which, of course, I can't do. It's complete nonsense. You have to be a decent cook to begin with. I'd be the joke one.

  

  Lesley Nicol
  • Celebrity