Nathan Fielder Quotes
A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.
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Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking?
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Passionate attachment to another nation produces a variety of evils... the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting the enmities of the other; and participation in the quarrels and wars of the other without any justification. Still another evil is that such a passionate attachment gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens the facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country.
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Hyesan people have money, the most after those in Pyongyang, because it's near the border with China. Illegal smuggling businesses and Chinese trading companies operate there, so people can access outside products.
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I do embarrassing things all the time, but I don't really get embarrassed. It's like I'm unaware of my embarrassing things.
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
