Nathan Kirsh Quotes
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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What we've seen of Rey, she looks like she can handle her stuff. So most of the comments I get are from parents who say how wonderful it is that their little girls can see this character.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?
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If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.
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I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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I love Vegas. It's like going to Disneyland.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.
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But, no, I don't think there will be any kind of problem as far as setting up to be competitive, but you've got to get it right if you want to be the first one across the line.
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Dear God, I am only what you made me and I appreciate everything that you gave me, but like, I don't want to do it any more, sort of lost sight of what I'm doing it for.
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I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group.
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I like to see a tidy shop, and I want to see my investments well managed.
