Nelson Gidding famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night.
-- Nelson Gidding

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I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.
I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.
Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.
Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
Itâ€™s for you to decide whether change is right for you right now. Maybe it is, maybe it isnâ€™t. But either way keep the growth mindset in your thoughts then when you bump up against obstacles you can turn to it, it will always be there for you showing you a path into the future.
I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work.
And what do you think will happen to you when you find life is just too good to be left alone? You'll start living it.
There are times when you seek your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone.
The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.

Nelson Gidding famous quotes

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