Nicola Roberts Quotes

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damned things take you.

I do, in some senses, feel that Hollywood and Washington are similar in that, first of all, they are, again, male-dominated worlds, which is not unusual. There are a lot of industries like that, but also, there's a lot of politics when it comes to the ins and outs of getting things done, getting a film made.

Politics is not a laboratory experiment where you can control everything. You have to take calls even when you feel that matters may spin out of your hand.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

What can equal the caprices of politics?

In politics the future is never a straight line projection of the present.

A week is a long time in politics. A month is an eternity.

I've been very successful in business and I owe it all to politics.

Politics is who gets what, when, how.

Politics is pretty much an up and down business

At all levels, but especially at the top, politics is about people.

Power is precarious.

Politics is about the persuasion required to move people to judgment.

The power of uncontrollable decision is of the most delicate and dangerous nature.

There can be no finality in politics.

To live in freedom one must grow used to a life full of agitation, change and danger.

It's very rare when we are in control of everything. Sure, I can learn my lines, I can know my character really well, but there are so many factors going on throughout the day.

There is often better opportunity attached to fame, at least career-wise. But it's a flash. You can't control it. You can't depend on it.

It's weird to have no control over something that you're involved in.

The Middle East is a region where predictions go to die.

If Advaniji did not want, I would never have been Prime Minister.

All political careers are a rollercoaster.

I'm well aware of the pragmatism of politics.

I was in college for organizational communication and politics because I was just fascinated by influence. I wondered how people have influence, not because I wanted to inspire the world - yet.

There are so many things that could happen and will happen that are out of my control.