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 was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.
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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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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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No man fails who does his best.
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If there is anything in life in which I take a pardonable pride, it is my friendship for certain old woodsmen and hunters; obscure men, as far as the world is concerned, but faithful friends, loyal comrades.
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There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
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Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
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When we get news 24 hours a day, I think people need the evening newscast more than ever.
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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.
