George Jean Nathan Quotes
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If I can still have Hollywood and a piece of Bollywood, I will take it.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
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Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
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I'd love to play Wonder Woman.
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Henceforward I am the truth's. Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law. I will have no covenants but proximities.
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Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. (Long translation)
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This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.
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If you can build your career around your passions, then you're winning in life; that's one of the best things you can ask for.
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Being worshipped is a horrible experience.
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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
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What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.
