Lesley Nicol Quotes
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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Most Israelis have a sense, 'We just don't want to live in the Middle East anymore. We don't want it to be the Middle East. Were going to just build a wall or operate unilaterally' - not try to even use force as used to be the case to convince Arabs to accept Israel by convincing them that Israel is here to stay and then negotiating.
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We take ourselves so seriously moment by moment, but India shows you a sense of eternity. You're one little ant on a hill. You're part of life, but you're not the whole thing.
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Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
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As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
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There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
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If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.
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The E.U. needs a strategy that marries a shared vision to common action.
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What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink - that's one less connection you could have made.
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I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.
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One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, 'Right. Now I understand how this is done.'
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We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.
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I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.
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The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.
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I consider myself a man of the world; I connect very strongly with Nigeria, but I see that the work exists all over the world, and I will go where the work is.
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I met Bette Midler, who I absolutely love.
