Nick Cummins Quotes

The quoll is like the Australian version of the honey badger. It's a little mongrel that gets around and is pretty fierce and will take on a few things. You don't want to get that in your campsite.

Nick Cummins

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FierceYouHoneyWantWillLittle

Young people have a right to optimism, and rightly so; human beings have grown and developed and accomplished wonderful feats in the world. But what mires me in pessimism is the fact that so much of life is pain and sorrow and willful ignorance and violence, and pushing back against that tide takes so much effort, so much steady fight. It's tiring.

Jesmyn Ward

LifeIgnorancePainFightEffortMe

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

John F. Kennedy

MotivationalHappenThingsMade

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.

Matt Groening

ScienceLookingLovedScience Fiction

We all think we are connected to the world now, but we are not talking to our neighbours any more.

Jean-Michel Jarre

WorldThinkTalkingNowConnected

Netflix has such a knack for giving a new life to those B-movies that you thought and hoped no one would ever see. Especially when you have a new project coming out and they're looking to mine some of your lesser-known films.

Spencer Grammer

LifeLookingThoughtGivingNew Life

I don't do anything I don't want to do. There are so many opportunities that come my way, but if there's something out there that I don't want to do, I truly don't do it, because I have to maximize my time. If there's truly an opportunity to be quiet and be by myself, I do it.

Michael Strahan

OpportunityTimeMyselfOpportunities

In a sense, any story that anyone writes is going to be autobiographical - whether it deals directly with the author's experience or not - because it captures what we're obsessed with while working on that particular piece.

Molly Antopol

ExperienceStoryGoingWorkingSense

Bars are about experience and interaction; so often, the people make the bar.

Jon Taffer

ExperiencePeopleBarInteraction

Now I've got a fairly good grasp of the 18th century on what was common and what people thought. But I don't write in order. I write bits and pieces and sort of glue them.

Diana Gabaldon

GoodPeopleThoughtNowWriteGlue

I would be lying if I said I did not feel bad when 'Shamitabh' failed, but I was proud to be associated with a film like this. If it were easy to know the pulse of the audience, then all movies would be blockbusters.

Dhanush

ProudFeelEasyBadKnowMovies

It is our interpretation of the past, our limiting beliefs, and our undigested pain that stop us from being able to move forward with clear direction.

Debbie Ford

PastPainForwardDirectionStopUs

Superficial pop will always exist - there've always been Fabians - but when people like Dire Straits and Bruce Hornsby start having hits, it suggests that there's a revolution going on in music.

Bonnie Raitt

MusicPeopleStartRevolutionWill

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