Kimberley Nixon Quotes

I hadn't done comedy before 'Fresh Meat' - I hadn't really been seen that way, and then 'Fresh Meat' came out, and suddenly a lot more comedy scripts were coming my way, which was really great.

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• What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.

  

  Natasha Leggero
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• The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

  

  Pablo Neruda
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• I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.

  

  Carl Paladino
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• What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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• It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

  

  Banksy
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• Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
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• I actually love doing comedy!

  

  Felicity Jones
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• Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

  

  Quentin Blake
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• First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.

  

  Adam McKay
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• I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

  

  Halle Berry
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• There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

  

  Katey Sagal
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• Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
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• Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• I have a great plain blue shirt from APC, and a denim one from Dolce that I wear constantly. It's hard to find the perfect denim shirt, but this is it.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.

  

  Manika
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• We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
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• If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.

  

  Rachel Maddow
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• How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

  

  Arna Bontemps

• I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were shorter than mine.

  

  Jessica Simpson

• I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.

  

  Banksy
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• There is a dessert dish in Austria called Kaiserschmarrn - it's kind of like a sweet raisin pancake with eggs and sugar. It's definitely not something I can eat often, but if I've done well at a race, sometimes that's my celebration treat!

  

  Lindsey Vonn
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• If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

  

  Bela Lugosi
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• I hadn't done comedy before 'Fresh Meat' - I hadn't really been seen that way, and then 'Fresh Meat' came out, and suddenly a lot more comedy scripts were coming my way, which was really great.

  

  Kimberley Nixon
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