Ben Nicholson Quotes
The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them.
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I have invariably been in love when I haven't had the same reciprocated emotion at all. I don't choose to talk about my personal life because I believe that I don't want to, and I believe my personal life is personal.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
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I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
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I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.
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The biggest thing for me with charity is awareness. Obviously as an athlete, I have an opportunity to make people more aware. The average person doesn't have that opportunity, so the best way is to spare some money, clothing, food - something. Most of us have a little excess of something that we can give.
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I would definitely love to be a parent.
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Heal the past, live the present, dream the future.
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I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.
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I have been one acquainted with the night.
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My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign publishers and am so disconnected from that process that it seems almost imaginary. With 'How to Save a Life', I worked closely with Usborne editors and have been involved in the publicity.
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The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.
