Paul Nurse Quotes

That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about.

If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.

It's never a surprise to me that a job that I'm doing reflects what I'm going through or what I'm thinking about.

What I went through in personal life had a big impression on my professional choices.

We actors have lives beyond the film industry too!

Going to the U.A.E. for the first time was a real cultural shock. Everything was different. People didn't speak my language, it was all new, a huge change. But I loved it.

Miami gave me an opportunity to grow. I wanted to see if I was really a one-team guy, or if I picked up my suitcases and set up shop somewhere else, would I be able to make the team?

I was very surprised when I first started spending time in America. The culture shock was something I wasn't prepared for. I had a lot of work to do to try to begin to understand this enormous and complex country that I thought would be an easy process.

Lifelong learning is becoming commonplace, with people studying at different times when they see the benefits of doing so.

As I've grown in the league and in life, having my kids around and seeing their growth and development is special and it's something I wouldn't trade for all the jobs in the world.

I don't think you should want everything at work, because home life is so important, and much more nourishing for your soul. One day work will end.

It takes me to places I never would have gone, and I've met people all because what I do for a living.

The benefit of coming to a place like Greece and winning is priceless for your development.

I love people that kind of have those life experiences that take them different places.

I worked as long in a fish and chip shop as I did in Parliament. I've had particular experiences in politics, but they're not my only ones, and they're not the ones that defined me.

I feel like I've grown up, not only at NBC, but also at 'Today.'

I come from Maceio, where it is very hot all year around. I moved to Florinoples in the south, which is very cold. I passed the tests that were asked of me there, and that got me the move to Germany. I could have stayed in Brazil, but I wanted the challenge.

In the course of my career, which has been an incredible rollercoaster ride, I look at the journey and think it's been immense.

It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood.

What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.

I think that everybody in life probably goes through obstacles at different times in life. I wouldn't really call them obstacles, I think that's just called growing up, and I think it's hard to be in the industry at such a young age

I've lived almost, like, four completely different lives. (Stripping) was just one section - one little small section, if that - but it was a very interesting and turbulent but kind of wild ride and I'm not ashamed of it all. I think it's hilarious and I learned a lot about human nature.

What else is there to write about than love and loss?

At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed experience. How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or even seen anybody die? A girl I knew had just won a prize for a short story about her adventures among the pygmies in Africa. How could I compete with that sort of thing?

In 1995, I went to Berlin to acting school, which was in East Berlin. And I decided to live in the east, because I thought if I go to West Berlin, I might as well stay in Stuttgart in the West because I know all the signs, and the way we deal with each other, and I wanted to get to know the other part of Germany and how they lived and what their history was and their biography. In that period of time, I learned a lot, and it helped me a lot.