Lesley Nicol Quotes
One of the Sunday newspapers asked me to make my favorite dish, and they photographed me holding it in the kitchen. It was roasted salmon with roasted vegetables. That's not cooking; that's putting things in a pan. It looked quite nice, but I'm not saying it was good.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.
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I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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There's the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There's almost this feeling like being captain of the team. You want to put a bit of energy into actually setting a good example.
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I feel close to Lloyd in 'Say Anything'. He was like a super-interesting version of me. Only I'm not as good as him. Whatever part of me is romantic and optimistic, I reached into that to play Lloyd.
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One of the Sunday newspapers asked me to make my favorite dish, and they photographed me holding it in the kitchen. It was roasted salmon with roasted vegetables. That's not cooking; that's putting things in a pan. It looked quite nice, but I'm not saying it was good.
