Nathan Fillion Quotes
'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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I think people will believe anything about someone they haven't seen for a while.
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American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.
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In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher.
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Life is problems. Living is solving problems.
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For me the problem of induction is a problem about the world: a problem of how we, as we are now (by our present scientific lights), in a world we never made, should stand better than random, or coin-tossing chances changes of coming out right when we predict by inductions. . . .
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
