Nat Hentoff Quotes
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I have fallen in love so many times. If one relationship ended, I would search for another girl. I was always madly in love with all the girls that I dated.
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All good actors are actresses. The more like a woman they are, the better they act, because a man's salvation is his femininity. Women have stronger sensibilities than men, which allows them to go a bit deeper when they are on and off the stage.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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I did anything that would get me on the air.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.
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We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do a historic restoration, you can't just do whatever you want. You work alongside the fine-arts commission and are obliged to create a replica of the past, as close as humanly possible. It's a historic institution, not a showhouse.
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A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.
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I've always wanted to walk the whole of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which winds 184.5 miles from Georgetown to Cumberland, Maryland.
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I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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I eat a lot of fish to stay healthy.
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In an ideal world, we would charge people a $10,000 success fee when they get married or a $5,000 success fee if they enter into a relationship with someone. Unfortunately, that's a little bit hard to track, although someday maybe we'll get around to that.
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Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
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I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics.
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I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words.
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You have an electorate in America that wants to see people who are not tough on crime.
