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Nick Hornby Quotes

The Oscars are like a political campaign. You have to have the right candidates, and the people in Hollywood know what they are.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: April 17, 1957

Topics

People Political You Know Hollywood

I think about the sentence a long time, and then I write it. I don't revise it once it's set down.

Time Think Long Down Long Time Set

I have been an organizer and then activist and a legislator, all of that. But then there's this big gap after I advanced in Congress and ended up as the ranking member of financial services committee. It took me into the financial services issues and Wall Street and Dodd Frank. And it took me away from the things that I did years ago.

Me Financial Wall Congress Street

Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

Today Teen Free Accept More

I didn't care about being the 'star.' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career.

Angie Dickinson

Care Career Living Star Consistent

If you prosecute a CEO or other senior executive and send him or her to jail for committing a crime, the deterrent effect in my view vastly outweighs even the best compliance program you can put in place.

Best View You Place Jail Compliance

I speak up when it's needed.

Speak Up Needed

I don't need celebrity friends. I don't need new friends. I am what I am.

I Am Friends New Friends New Need

I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.

Roland Emmerich

Filmmaker Scientist

I'd want it to be really special to both of us, but I'm a huge fan of 'At Last' as a wedding song. But what's also really cool is songs that no one else would have at their wedding, like an obscure Radiohead song.

Cool Song Wedding Want Special Us

We in the U.A.E. have no such word as 'impossible'; it does not exist in our lexicon. Such a word is used by the lazy and the weak, who fear challenges and progress.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Fear Progress Challenges Impossible

Everyone always comes to one point in their life as an artist where you can either let your heart guide you or your ego.

Life Heart Ego You Artist Always

I've known from a very early age that singing was what I was supposed to do. There was this unmistaken, undeniable passion within me to sing country music.

Music Passion Age Me Singing Early

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