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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New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.
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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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Dear God, thank you for my life. I forgot how big and wonderful it is.
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I met Robert Rodriguez working on a movie called 'Roadracers.'
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Evolution may not “drive” toward humanoid qualities at all, even if it uses them under rather special circumstances. What evolution may be up to could be merely the continuing structuration of the biosphere through increased levels of communication between systems of one level, resulting in more integrated supersystems on the next.
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How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
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I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas; it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived.
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I met Bette Midler, who I absolutely love.
