Lesley Nicol Quotes
I'm very lucky to have a husband who cooks, for a start. It's a good partnership. I met him through a friend, and we just hit it off.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I watch my films with my mum and other family members, you know. I also know there are thousands of women who watch my films. I don't want to set wrong examples.
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Being spontaneous is a blessing.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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I love anything to do with history.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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We take pride in making our Knockouts Division about wrestling, not about looking pretty.
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Even when we tell kids to go play, what do the kids do? They come up with a set of constraints and structures. "Oh, we're gonna build a fort out of clothes, and now that we're in the fort we're going to pretend that we're prisoners," or whatever.
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But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.
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My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.
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When you're an artist, you're generally working at home alone in a studio. It's just really good to get with other guys and make art something you can share.
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I'm very lucky to have a husband who cooks, for a start. It's a good partnership. I met him through a friend, and we just hit it off.
