Nate Parker Quotes
I immediately felt the need, back when I was a managing tech engineer, to attach myself to Nat Turner. And to research him and learn about him and try to find ways into his life that I could apply to my life.
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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My first Olympics was Munich in 1972. I am better now than I was then, in knowledge and experience. The age of top riders generally tends to be older than in other sports because it takes a lot of time to be consistent.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I got kicked out of a club for sticking up for my sister. And I got into a fight that was basically hair pulling and rolling around on the gym floor. The fights make me sound like a hell-raiser, but I'm not proud of them.
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Life isn't supposed to be easy. Generally speaking, the harder something is the more rewarding the results will be.
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I felt a sort of energy flow through me that I had never felt before — as if I was a part of something greater than myself
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I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
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I think there are periods in this country when behavior is abhorrent: McCarthy, Watergate, Bill Clinton. It's just a question of how the checks and balances in the American system work and how leaders stand up to it or don't stand up to it.
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I immediately felt the need, back when I was a managing tech engineer, to attach myself to Nat Turner. And to research him and learn about him and try to find ways into his life that I could apply to my life.
