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.
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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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.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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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.
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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
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It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.
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I was a really big kid.
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.
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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.
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I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.
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India is my kid sister.
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I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid.
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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.
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I'm too much of a big kid.
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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.
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People talk about random acts of kindness, and that goes back to the measure of being gentlemanly again. It's about having consideration for others, and not expecting anything back. That's the difference.
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I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.
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If I collected all the diamonds in the world, I'd have no 'income' but I'd have a lot of 'assets'. Would my company be worth nothing because I have no income? A lot of Net companies are collecting assets. They have to be measured with a new set of metrics.
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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.
