Lesley Nicol Quotes
I guess that is my favorite thing - to make people laugh and also to maybe engage them emotionally and touch them somehow in telling the story.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!
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She put it up on the school bulletin board, and that gave me such a jump-start toward writing more things.
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This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven.
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My brother and I have a profound nostalgia for our youth, and I think people need to come to terms with things leaving and being gone.
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The September 11th, 2012, attacks on the State Department compound in Benghazi, Libya, is important and should be studied because in the big picture, it represents a failed foreign policy that spans across both Bush and Obama Presidencies.
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I guess that is my favorite thing - to make people laugh and also to maybe engage them emotionally and touch them somehow in telling the story.
