Quote by Bill Nighy
I dont seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful

I dont seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesnt help me. Precedents dont inform my experience. – Bill Nighy

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My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious. – Bill Nighy

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Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home. – Bill Nighy

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I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage. – Bill Nighy

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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. – Barbara Tuchman

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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. – Mark Twain

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Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing theyre whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever theyve got. I cant possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. – David Cronenberg

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Theres something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things. – Tim Burton

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