Nathaniel Branden Quotes
Pride is the emotional reward of achievement. It is not a vice to be overcome but a virtue to be attained.
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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's very easy to lose track of the environment around you, to lose touch with the present.
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I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different character for me. I was excited to play this really tough, sweet smart, quirky girl because that's who I am at my core, but that's never who I was playing. The show is like my pride and joy.
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All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.
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That's a KORTAN DAHUK. That's the first alien we see in the film Valerian. That's another artist. The first one was Chinese, the one with the space station. This one is American. Personally, that's my favorite alien. I love him. I love his profile and his face. There is such a sweetness and almost a sadness in his face.
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When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.
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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.
