Lesley Nicol Quotes
I wish I could play the piano. I started when I was four and finished when I was five. I got bored. I couldn't tell my left hand from my right back then!
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.
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I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.
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Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive.
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People really need to take time and read a book. You know? That’s my advice. You could read A New Slant on Life, you could read Dianetics. And I think if you really read it, you’ll understand it, but unless you do, you’ll speculate. And I think that’s a mistake to do that.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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If you're going to write a story, avoid contemporary references. They date a story and they have no staying power.
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I'll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind 'Cause I made my mind up you're going to be mine.
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I wish I could play the piano. I started when I was four and finished when I was five. I got bored. I couldn't tell my left hand from my right back then!
