Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes
A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves in what it is that you're depicting.
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Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.
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People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.
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We know that families and kids are going to be an important part of our audience, so we've always made sure that we've picked subject matter that was appropriate for kids. But I think if you try to target a movie to kids, you're going to fail.
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A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.
