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 was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.
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I'm too much of a big kid.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.
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I'm happier on the runway than I am on the red carpet. Because then I am not being myself. I think, on the red carpet, it's a weird, like, 'Who am I? Am I me? Am I them?'
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You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.
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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.
