Corin Nemec Quotes

I can't sing. Definitely no ambition in that area.

Corin Nemec

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• Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Time
  • Character
  • Leaving

• I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Time
  • God
  • Heart

• September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Up
  • Past
  • Hate

• How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Important
  • Love
  • Chance

• Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Done
  • Today

• Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Country
  • Wall
  • President

• I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Long
  • Pretty

• When someone calls you 'gay,' there's not much you can do about that because I am. Whereas, if someone calls you fat, there is something you can do about that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Gay
  • Fat

• We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Wonder

• I design to make women feel confident and beautiful.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Design

• Every American, I think, should be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Think
  • Taxes

• I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• My parents worked in the film industry, but they both worked behind the camera, so I like to think that I have a really good understanding of how all the parts of the puzzle come together to make a film or TV show.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Good
  • Together
  • Parents

• We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Kind
  • Wall
  • Greatest

• There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up – the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • World
  • Science
  • Me

• I was for civil unions and believed strongly that the flow of benefits and protections that would be provided in a civil union for same-sex couples, the decisions that have to be made, when health hardships are faced, when economic hardships are faced, I wanted all of those protections. I never strayed from them.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Health
  • Never
  • Sex

• This medal goes to show that you don't always have to have the best facilities, the best organisation, the best of everything to achieve.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Best
  • Always
  • Achieve

• Before the 'Fast & Furious' promo in Manila, I went on a vacation in the Philippines 10 years earlier. I loved it. My 'Miss Saigon' friends showed me around.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Friends
  • Vacation

• Alan Whicker may be the last Briton to have worn a silver-buttoned blazer with complete confidence.

  

  Craig Brown
  • May
  • Confidence

• At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Decision
  • Judge
  • Conversation

• A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Ambition

• When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • College
  • Day
  • Ambition

• I can't sing. Definitely no ambition in that area.

  

  Corin Nemec
  • Ambition