Nathan Fillion Quotes
Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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All Democrats are not entitlement people. These are the people who are going to suffer the cost of Obama health care. These are the people who are suffering because there're no jobs.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.
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I learned to play chess at a young age, and I think that's where learning to plan things out and put things in position, that was the best thing for me.
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I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.
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I'd love to play Spiderman, but I'm definitely too old for that role now.
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Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
