George Jean Nathan Quotes
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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I just want to do my job.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.
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When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.
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The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.
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I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.
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In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.
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If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person!
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Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
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I'm obsessed with being human.
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Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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It was sad when Sid Vicious died... I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.
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If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?
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Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
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I've learned from every director I've worked with. Everybody's style is very different, and I always say that being an actor is the best film school that I could ever go to.
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Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
