Nathaniel Branden Quotes

I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.

Nathaniel Branden

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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

Mamie Van Doren
- Women
- Star
- Woman
Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

Viggo Mortensen
- You
- Arts
- Awards
Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.

Nancy Sinatra
- Girl
- Care
- Monkey
I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.

Nas
- Life
- Up
- Done
Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.

Ramana Maharshi
- Mind
- Death
- Brain
I want to have an impact on my son.

Orlando Bloom
- Want
- Son
- Impact