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Nigel Hamilton Quotes

I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: February 16, 1944

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More Never Understood Label Than

The film I did with Bobby De Niro, 'The King of Comedy' - an awful lot came to me out of that movie because De Niro never allowed me any room to be crazy. If I had tried to play it the way I would normally play it and get hysterical, Bobby would punch me.

King Me Crazy Comedy Play Way

The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.

Respect Progress Government Effort

My grandmother, Nina Eaton, founded United Cerebral Palsy. At the time that my father was born with it, there were no resources for people with the condition. So my grandmother and grandfather, who lived in Brooklyn, tried to reach out for some type of resource or support, and people just told them to institutionalize my father.

Father Time Support People Reach

Families just have so many secrets and dysfunctions.

Secrets Just Many Families

I am convinced that during bouts of insomnia, I have sometimes slept without knowing it.

I Am Sometimes Knowing Without Slept

I didn't want my records to sound like anybody else, and when I've got my guys in the studio, I have a language with those guys because we work together every day. A lot of times, you bring in outside guys, studio players, whatever, and they're great musicians. It's just that they don't necessarily play the way I want it to be played.

Work Great Day Together Language

Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.

Death Kiss You Go Away Goes

I like older people; I think older people have a lot of flavor.

People Think Flavor Like Older Lot

I think, probably, the place that I feel I most belong is a movie set. It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement. So I guess acting was a way of finding a home, if that makes sense.

Anya Taylor-Joy

Home World Think Finding Acting Way

In many ways, I've been writing personal stories all my life.

Life Writing My Life Personal Been

Such is the endless dilemma of dialect. Not every reader will ever agree with the way that I handle it, no matter how hard I work to keep everything readable. But again it's that balance I have to maintain between keeping it easy and keeping it real, and I know that I'll never please everyone.

Susanna Kearsley

Work Balance Easy Please Everyone

I couldn't say my own name when I was 12.

Name Say My Own Own

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