Kimberley Nixon Quotes

I get mistaken for Amanda Holden; I've had that since I was 12. I get Carey Mulligan, too. We look quite similar, and she does 'Bleak House' and I do 'Cranford,' so people mix us up. I'm sure we'll play sisters at some point.

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• I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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• I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.

  

  Nate Berkus
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• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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• Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.

  

  Beatrice Wood
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• I'm pretty obsessed with Sara Bareilles. She is so talented, and I feel like I would learn so much from her.

  

  Laura Marano
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• Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
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• I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.

  

  Tali Lennox
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• A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.

  

  Ted Lange
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• In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
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• Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.

  

  Garth Nix
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• Whenever someone says something bad about you, just confront them on it and just be a man and own up to it. If you said something you shouldn t have said, and it's important to somebody you need to talk to, you need to go talk to them. Be a man. Step up.

  

  J. R. Smith
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• I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.

  

  Ted Strickland
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• Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• Islam's not just about covering your hair. It's about how you treat other people.

  

  Bassem Youssef
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• I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.

  

  Barbara Kruger
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• So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!

  

  Edgar Bergen
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• Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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• I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
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• The first series of 'McMafia' is very Alex Godman-centric and could continue to be, but we haven't even begun to explore the Middle East or Africa or even South America in detail. One of our ambitions would be to drop into some of these other places and, by doing so, bring the audience into a world that they wouldn't necessarily have been in.

  

  James Watkins
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• Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
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• Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

  

  Mary Wortley Montagu
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• History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

  

  Enoch Powell
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• I get mistaken for Amanda Holden; I've had that since I was 12. I get Carey Mulligan, too. We look quite similar, and she does 'Bleak House' and I do 'Cranford,' so people mix us up. I'm sure we'll play sisters at some point.

  

  Kimberley Nixon
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