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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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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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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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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I connect music to the emotions that come from relationships, so most of the songs that I write are inspired by those circumstances, emotions, feelings, all that kind of stuff.
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The main point of democracy is to deliver positive results for the majority.
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I love the idea of coming into a struggling franchise and seeing if I can help them win. First off, I hate to lose. At anything. Secondly, who doesn't want to be the guy to help turn something around?
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When people do something extraordinarily well, it's self-evident. It could be art. It could be a circus, whatever it is, where people are doing incredible things. It's self-evident. You know that it's beautiful. You know that it's very difficult, but it looks easy.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
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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.
