George Jean Nathan Quotes
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The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.
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I'm a total people pleaser.
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It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.
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We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.
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I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
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I have been cooking with preserved lemon for years, using it left, right and centre, but I am still far from reaching my limit.
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There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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I have found that my fan base is a bit above average when compared to the common horror fan.
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Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
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If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.
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We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.
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I'm always gonna be compared to the greatest cats that's in the game, but I lack a little bit less when I'm not as visible as other guys. So I live with that thought right there - yo, you still gotta work, still got more to do. One thing where I come from you gotta remember is, don't get souped up.
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A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
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'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.
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I do think you need to understand a character's motivation and perspective.
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The '50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful.
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The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man.
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There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss, motherhood and the shifting tonalities of light that transform the domestic and ordinary into the strange and extraordinary that, combined with tenderness of address, approach the worshipful and make a number of these poems so moving and distinctive.
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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
