Nick Van Eede Quotes
I have got important quotes in my life written on my wall in my studio in big handwriting three inches tall which I sometimes look up and read.
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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I never read about photography.
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My mother taught me to read.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.
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I would read all day if I could.
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When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.'
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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I write in the studio.
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I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.
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I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
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Don't classify me, read me.
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I often don't read reviews.
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I don't read a lot of books.
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfume, cars, etc., is a short fairy tale, for they are given magical qualities.
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The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
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People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.
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When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.
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I have got important quotes in my life written on my wall in my studio in big handwriting three inches tall which I sometimes look up and read.
