Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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• Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.

  

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• On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.

  

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• I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?

  

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• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

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• Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.

  

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• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

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• I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.

  

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• For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.

  

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• I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.

  

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• Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.

  

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• There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.

  

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• I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.

  

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• People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.

  

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• Work at being a humble person.

  

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• On the pitch and for life generally, I keep my center by remembering that I am part of a team and if I don't do my part, I let down not just my team but everyone who follows it.

  

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• I've made a lot of very small movies that may not have had a large initial audience. Then it shows up on cable.

  

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• I was the kid at six who was like, 'I want to be in a jazz club.' I was never the pop kid, ever. I mean that's not true, I had a couple years where I wanted to be Tiffany and Debbie Gibson, but aside from that, no.

  

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• Put aside whatever suspicions you may have about whether Donald Trump will be directly implicated in the Russia investigation. Trump is right now, before our eyes and those of the world, committing an unbelievable and unforgivable crime against this country. It is his failure to defend.

  

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• No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • True
  • Man