Nathaniel Branden Quotes
Pride is the emotional reward of achievement. It is not a vice to be overcome but a virtue to be attained.
Quotes to Explore
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.
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No man fails who does his best.
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
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It was very clear these people live with very real fear of emotional and physical harm, even now. Learning that they live in that world, that causes me to rethink and be more sensitive to some of the actions I do may have unintended consequences.
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The history of black people in Manhattan is a story of people getting pushed farther uptown as land acquires new uses and increases in value.
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I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.
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I'm really interested with the way light plays on images and one of the artists that really reawakened my interest in comic books was Frank Miller and his treatment of Daredevil, and then Wolverine and, of course, Batman.
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In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony.
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Pride is the emotional reward of achievement. It is not a vice to be overcome but a virtue to be attained.
