Adela Florence Nicolson Quotes
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.
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When Rakesh Roshan called me for 'Khoon Bhari Maang,' it was supposed to be a six month shoot, but I ended up staying for four years doing 12 films.
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Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.
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Since September 11, security has been increased everywhere, and we have new IDs to get on to the Fox lot. I drove to the security gate, but realized I'd left my ID in my other car. I just broke into that voice - 'Hey, man, I'm Bart Simpson. Who else sounds like this?' The guard waved me through.
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To think is to practice brain chemistry.
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I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.
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I'm not good at finding 'encouraging' features in American culture. I doubt that aesthetic literacy has much of a future here.
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Viewing the earth from above gives you this sense of how special the planet is that we live on.
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I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently.
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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
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There's no counting the number of times the media have asked, 'Will this be the thing that drives Donald Trump's supporters away from him? Is this finally the time?'
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Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.
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There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.
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One of my biggest influences of all time would probably be one of my soccer coaches, Coach Darlington, from high school. He was always trying to get me to push myself really hard. No excuses. I always hated him, but it paid off. I think that's what life is all about... when you push through the hard stuff and it pays off.
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I believe in music because it has the power of change.
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The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me.
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I love America. I really do. It's by far the place I like visiting out of anywhere in the world. I get a palpable sense of excitement when the plane's landing. It's a cliché, but there's still an incredible energy about New York in particular.
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Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
