Nat Hentoff Quotes
Inside that quietude there was the firmest of wills. Bill Shawn knew exactly what he wanted to do.
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
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Out of all the clubs who were interested, I got the feeling that, deep down, Chelsea showed that they really wanted me. There were lots of reasons I came to Chelsea. They showed a real desire to get me to come here. I didn't have to think about it too much.
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I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
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The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
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When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.
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I've never wanted to be the boss.
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It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.
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No, I haven't asked for a guy's number, but I've always wanted to.
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I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part.
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I became what I wanted to be.
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My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
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I was really into my studies and wanted to be a doctor.
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Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.
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A lot of women say to me, 'You know, I really hated you because my kids wanted you to be their mother.'
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When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.
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Musically, I always wanted to experiment.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
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It's never gone so far as me wishing I'd never done 'Quadrophenia,' but there was a time when I wouldn't talk about it because I wanted people to be interested in me for other things as well.
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The way I like to think about it is, even though I started music early - I started in classical music - it wasn't until I discovered jazz that I really fell in love with music and realized this was what I wanted to do for a living.
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In comparing these two writers, he [Samuel Johnson] used this expression: "that there was as great a difference between them as between a man who knew how a watch was made, and a man who could tell the hour by looking on the dial-plate." This was a short and a figurative statement of his distinction between drawing characters of nature and characters only of manners, but I cannot help being of opinion, that the neat watches of Fielding are as well constructed as the large clocks of Richardson, and that his dial plates are brighter.
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He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
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Inside that quietude there was the firmest of wills. Bill Shawn knew exactly what he wanted to do.
