Nat Hentoff Quotes

I once did a - the first piece on Malcolm X that anyone had ever seen in the - white press.

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• I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Authenticity

• We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.

  

  Wendell H. Ford
  • Problem
  • Need
  • Nation

• Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Time
  • Character
  • Interesting

• 'Matilda' was my favorite movie to film and my favorite to watch, as well.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Movie
  • Film
  • Favorite

• The documentary 'Certifiably Jonathan' has engrossing moments in it. How can it not? It's got a great subject - the extraordinarily voluble comedian Jonathan Winters, whose constant rush of words can be like a blizzard: beautiful, maddening, exhausting, and finally beautiful again. But it's not a great film.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Words

• Life would be very boring if friends always agreed.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Life
  • Friends

• The fact that terrorists have yet again targeted not U.S. or UK troops but an international organization... shows the depth of depravity to which they stoop.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Organization
  • Troops
  • Terrorists

• My daughter came to us last night and insisted we contribute in some way to Earth Day.

  

  Peter Hayes Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
  • Earth
  • Daughter
  • Came

• When I left Genesis, I just wanted to be out of the music business. I felt like I was just in the machinery. We knew what we were going to be doing in 18 months or two years ahead. I just did not enjoy that.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Left
  • Music Business
  • Genesis

• If you are lucky as an actor, you are doing a character that really matches where you are in life, or you're doing a character that is not where you are. If it's somewhere in between, you have to use a lot of imagination and a lot of thought.

  

  Scott Cohen
  • Character
  • Imagination
  • Actors

• Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.

  

  Bill Murray
  • People
  • Burn
  • Crash

• I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances of their education,--what furthered, what hindered, what in any way modified it.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Culture
  • Education
  • Circumstances

• From a purely craft standpoint, a simple character has a single motivation, while complex characters have two or three or more motivations, at least one of which is in direct conflict with another.

  

  Nick Petrie
  • motivation
  • Characters
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• The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Power
  • Press
  • Fourth Estate

• Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Life
  • Star
  • Verge

• Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Kids
  • Giving
  • Sick

• Karma, ahhh. We sow what we reap... We reap what we sow! We reap what we sow. The law of cause and effect. And we are all under this law.

  

  Nina Hagen
  • Law
  • Causes
  • Effects

• I once did a - the first piece on Malcolm X that anyone had ever seen in the - white press.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Press
  • First Piece