Nate Parker Quotes
Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
Quotes to Explore
-
I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
-
As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
-
I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
-
There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
-
Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
-
My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
-
I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
-
Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.
-
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
-
My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
-
I'm a little angry in life.
-
You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
-
I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.
-
I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
-
Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
-
I love football, football is my life.
-
The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
-
I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
-
It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk?
-
My best friend Jerry started a boat-washing business, and it was one of the most critical experiences of my life. I got to meet a lot of people who were entrepreneurs. My parents were schoolteachers, and I was now meeting people who owned companies. I realized that if this guy can do it, why can't I?
-
I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.
-
Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What they were like at school. What shoes they wear. Spend days - weeks, months - being them until they thicken up and start to breathe.
-
Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
