Nat Hentoff Quotes
Young people get very excited when they hear why they are Americans. It is not hard to do.

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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'
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Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.
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The BJP, undoubtedly, is a party with a mission. Spreading hatred and religious discord, indulging in state-sponsored violence and fake encounter killings, and resorting to divisive politics have been integral to this mission.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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I don't care what size you are or how old you are - once you see the results brought to you by regular exercise, you'll wonder how you survived without it.
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.
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With 'The Sixth Sense,' my dad and I discussed how this was not so much a horror story as a story about communication. I understudied with my dad, in a sense. It made a huge difference.
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When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.
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Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.
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The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funny.
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The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.
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I don't watch 'American Idol,' but I wouldn't call it 'undignified.'
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Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.
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Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction, and has no other merit in their eyes than that it leads to a pay-packet at the end of the week.
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
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The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.
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For people who want to get into the voiceover industry, even if you want to get into commercial, you need to become a really, really good actor.
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Young people get very excited when they hear why they are Americans. It is not hard to do.