Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes
Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.
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Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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I think that in Mexico, we must change some practices that were built during the 72 years of predominance in Mexico. Former presidents would just hide away, run away or disappear. And I think it's key in a democracy that presidents face people, see eye to eye to citizens and work to keep on contributing to the - to Mexico.
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.
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I went through what I imagine thousands of other women have felt. I told myself to stay calm, to be strong, and that I had no reason to think I wouldn't live to see my children grow up and to meet my grandchildren.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.
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Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?
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Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.
