Ben Nicholson Quotes

It's difficult to find a house with no map at 3 o'clock in the morning in a foreign country and where you don't speak the language.

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• I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.

  

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• My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.

  

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• Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.

  

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• Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.

  

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• On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.

  

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• There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.

  

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• Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.

  

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• Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.

  

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• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

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• I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun.

  

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• The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.

  

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• I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

  

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• New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin.

  

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• Death comes to everyone. We must stand proud as Afghans in the defense of Islam.

  

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• It's difficult to find a house with no map at 3 o'clock in the morning in a foreign country and where you don't speak the language.

  

  Ben Nicholson
  • Country
  • House
  • Morning