Lily Nicksay Quotes
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.
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Let's make Marco Rubio explain why he thinks oil companies should write our energy policy.
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Do not let yourself get in your own way. Don't judge yourself and knock yourself down. There is enough of that out there already. Remember: you are an artist, and you bring something special to this craft. Take in notes and criticism, but don't let them define you. Don't try to become a watered down version of yourself.
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Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.
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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
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Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.
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I'm trying to talk about challenging subjects people might not like and trying to find relief as we discuss it.
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The children of today are the builders of a brave, new world - a world without want.
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I've got to be high class... Which is sad, because I like bars.
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The state treasurer has authority to weigh in and take leadership roles on taxing and spending legislation.
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If the 'Athens Spring' - when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts - has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from 'We the states' to 'We the European people.'
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The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.
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I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.
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Into left-center field and deep, THIS IS A TIE BALLGAME!
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I don't want to slow down. It's my life. I love being on the road and giving concerts.
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Really connecting with someone and maybe opening their mind a little bit, is such a cool thing to be able to do through music.
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All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.
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As an actor you use your imagination to put yourself in the shoes of bad guy characters. You create a story as to why you are doing it. You are finding what drives people to do this.
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I sailed around Europe and lived with the Karen tribe in Thailand for a month.
