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Vote: | I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | 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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Vote: | The corn that is B something 5 corn that's been genetically altered in the United States, it can't reproduce but it has huge kernels, it's very sweet and it's 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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Vote: | 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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Vote: | 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 totally capable. |
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Vote: | 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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Nicholas King Nolte (born February 8 1941) is an American model, actor, and producer. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska. His father, Frank Nolte, was an itinerant irrigation pump salesman. His father was also an All-American candidate at Iowa State in 1934. His mother, Helen Nolte, was a department store buyer.
His paternal grandfather was a German farmer with farm in Iowa. His maternal grandfather did agricultural research at Iowa State University, invented the hollow-tile silo and was prominent in early aviation. His maternal grandmother ran the student union at Iowa State University
He attended high school at Benson High School and Westside High School, both in Omaha. He attended Arizona State University on a football scholarship. He also attended Eastern Arizona College, in Thatcher, Arizona and Phoenix College, Phoenix, Arizona. He eventually dropped out due to unsatisfactory grades. He then started his career in theatre. He attended the Pasadena Playhouse and Stella Adler's Academy in Los Angeles. After training, Nolte spent years travelling the country and working in regional theaters. In 1962, Nolte was given five years probation for selling fake draft cards.
He has a lengthy screen career, including parts in B-movies and television films. Nolte was starred in over 40 films playing a wide variety of characters. Diversity of character is Nolte's signature of his film career. He is known for his trademark athleticism and gravel-voiced characters. According to a written note owned by Richard Donner Nolte was first choice to play Superman in the 1978 film.
Nolte has been a heavy drinker. Katharine Hepburn remarked about him falling down drunk in every gutter in town, to which Nolte replied, "I've got a few to go yet." He has been working on achieving sobriety since 1990. Nolte had a drug problem, but a subsequent rehabilitation helped his career. He received help at the Silver Hill Hospital in Connecticut after being arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in Malibu, CA. Tests showed the influence of GHB. He still smokes cigarettes. Nick is staying youthful by a regiment of vitamins and eating organic food only.
He has been involved with Shelia Page, Karen Louise Eklund, Sharyn Haddad, Debra Winger, Vicki Lewis, and Rebecca Linger. He is currently divorced. Nolte has an older sister, Nancy, who is the executive for Red Cross. Nolte had a son with Rebecca Linger, Brawley King Nolte. The son is an actor.
Nick Nolte currently resides in Malibu, California.
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