Thomas Nagel Quotes
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.
Quotes to Explore
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In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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I'm far from being a homosexual.
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T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.
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I was going to college to be a doctor.
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I really think that I don't mind people sleeping during my films, because I know that some very good films might prepare you for sleeping or falling asleep or snoozing. It's not to be taken badly at all. This is something I really mean.
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Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
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I've always - I grew up on the old-style traditional type of golf course, tree lined and all small greens, big undulations. And Oakmont just fit my eye.
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Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.
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Writers who sit down and write might judge what they're putting down, but I always just try to barf it out. I'm writing crap, but I'll put it down.
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It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing.
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When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.
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It's weird because I am accessible to people on Twitter, and I can choose to read good things or mean things, and people can reach out to me directly and tell me how much they hate me or love the song. It's a very strange new paradigm as an artist to find yourself among this kind of connectivity.
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I was having a dilemma whether I wanted to return to acting at all because I was coming from this sort of agency-less childhood career, and I'd never made the choice to go into acting.
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I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader.
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Losing your parent is unlike anything.
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I'm not 'Grace.' That album is like a brick onto itself. It's like a coffin that I put certain feelings and observations in so that they can be capsulized forever. I wanted to put them there so I would be free to move on.
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Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.
