Nat Hentoff Quotes
Bob Dylan was really mad with my wife. I had asked by Rolling Stone - the only assignment I ever had for them - to do a story on the Rolling Thunder Review, which was Bob Dylan, Alan Ginsberg, Joan Baez and a host of stars. My wife, some weeks before, had written in The New York Times that The Kid wasn't The Kid anymore and he wasn't all that winning anymore.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
-
They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.
-
I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
-
I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.
-
Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
-
It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
-
I was a really big kid.
-
I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
-
When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
-
I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.
-
When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.
-
I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.
-
India is my kid sister.
-
I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid.
-
I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.
-
I'm too much of a big kid.
-
The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.
-
And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.
-
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
-
Real emotion transcends language. You dont have to understand their words to feel their pain.
-
There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.
-
People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.
-
Bob Dylan was really mad with my wife. I had asked by Rolling Stone - the only assignment I ever had for them - to do a story on the Rolling Thunder Review, which was Bob Dylan, Alan Ginsberg, Joan Baez and a host of stars. My wife, some weeks before, had written in The New York Times that The Kid wasn't The Kid anymore and he wasn't all that winning anymore.
