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The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.
Nick Nolte
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Nick Nolte
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: February 8
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Nicholas King Nolte
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Success is a very scary thing especially after you choose something and everything starts coming at you. It's absolutely frightening because the mind does things. It says, 'You've got to hold on to this or get away from this.
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I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.
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I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar on his face. And what she meant by a scar was some kind of battle that you had to go through, whether it was psychological or physical. To her, a scar was actually beautiful and not something that marred you.
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Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.
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I never liked the Oscars. They didn't do too much for me at all. I felt like a big, vulnerable hunk of baloney being used to sell some products.
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We all go through life and say a lot of things that we don't really mean.
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If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.
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We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.
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Even though I play guitar, I don't do it publicly.
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The corn that is B something 5 corn thats been genetically altered in the United States, it cant reproduce but it has huge kernels, its very sweet and its wonderful but the winds have blown this across into Mexico. And so the Mexican corn is being infected with the inability to reproduce.
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You do come to a point where you can get your life in control a bit. But going through life, you discover these deep, dark things in yourself that you can’t run away from, so you have to learn to embrace them. I mean, the difference between a murderer and myself is only that I choose not to do it. But I’m capable.
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You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars.
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You've got to admit failure sometimes.
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When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.
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I should really be retired. But then you find out how much you get in retirement. I don't know how you make it. It's really rough!
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Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.
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Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.
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A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.
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One thing we forget about Hispanics is that they're family-unit-oriented as a culture. So it's not all wild Mexican gangs out there, as is rumored.
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Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.
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