Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes
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My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
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I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.
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I don't use a stylist. I know what I like, so I do it myself. I rip things out from fashion magazines. It's easy to order when the phone number is right on the page.
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I'm a strong supporter of states' rights to do what they need.
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Being able to live my life transparently does empower me to feel like I can be myself more. It's easier for me to flirt with girls now that girls know that I'm gay. It almost makes it a sexier encounter than if I was trying to pretend that I was straight.
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That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
