George Jean Nathan Quotes
So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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I think having children is the most amazing thing.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would be in trouble because - not that I wouldn't be able to step up to it - but I wouldn't love it. I wouldn't want to be that person; that wouldn't be my natural thing.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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For 'Rosa Luxemburg,' I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got an understanding of her that I'd never had before.
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I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
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You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
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When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter.
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Everybody knows that L.A. is known for its addiction to the single-passenger automobile, the gridlock, the congestion on the freeways.
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So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
