George Jean Nathan Quotes
Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.
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We're now able to show that the words of comfort trigger biological reactions which are the very things that you want, and you can use drugs to get there, or you can use words of comfort to get there, which would make your drugs so much more effective.
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I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.
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For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.
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Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.
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The world was arrogant and self-satisfied, but behind all this confidence there was an uneasy sense of impending disaster. The old creeds, both religious and political, were largely in the process of dissolution, but we did not realise the fact, and therefore did not look for new foundations.
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I was crazy about Elle Macpherson. She modeled, acted and did everything. She was a huge example for me.
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If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn't come from watching other films. We seem to be in a place now where filmmakers make films based on other films because that's where the stimuli and influence comes from.
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Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.
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Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
