Joe Nichols Quotes
Sometimes as an artist you get wrapped up in what you are doing and you can't be objective.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
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You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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Picture-taking is an ensemble art - like theater.
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Even when I was a kid, I always showed up late for school every day. It got to the point where they had my late slips filled for every day of the school year in advance, so all they had to do was fill in what time I got there.
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To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.
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I lived on my own when I was living in New York City when I was 18, working on a show. And that definitely kind of grows you up a little faster than a normal 18-year-old in college, so I think so. I think I've got some street smarts.
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I would say 90 percent of the scripts that show up on my door are women who have had lots of plastic surgery that are married to rich men - sort of a trophy wife.
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Sometimes as an artist you get wrapped up in what you are doing and you can't be objective.
