Kent Nerburn Quotes
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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I don't usually wear a lot of makeup because I tend to like a natural look.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I love Canada. Canada is a great neighbour. Canada has been a great friend and neighbor for many, many years.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
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My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.
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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
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Of course, I will continue acting. I just need to dispel the Telugu and Tamil cinema's insecurities about married actresses. I don't know about others. But I am not going anywhere after marriage.
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I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
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My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn't go through life expecting it, which is very good advice.
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But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.
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It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
