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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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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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
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The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.
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Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in 'GQ' magazine.
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No professional athlete likes to admit that he has played too long. There is too much money involved, rarely enough saved, and there is the eternal hope that age has not withered skills.
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I only collaborate with the people I rock with in life, period. I rock with people where I really respect their craft and respect what they're doing. That's what collaboration should start from.
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I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet, or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition in life is to win as many as possible.
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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.
