Nat Hentoff Quotes
My father was pretty independent. He was - he was arrested once in Nashville when he was on one of his sales trips because he had a black - guy to lunch. So that took a fair amount of courage at the time.

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Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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I feel like a lot of directing is casting.
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I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.
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Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a way. I pitched in and dug at my work until now I am where I am.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and not yet married, we spent weekends mentoring a family of young girls.
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Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP.
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The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.
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We're not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and Michael Jacksons of the world, but rather assisting infertile couples that deserve the right to have a biological child to have one.
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I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts. We can either be ugly and contemptuous in our behavior, which will turn people off, or else we can carry ourselves with dignity and pride.
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At the incredible pace most of us live, the arrested image becomes of maximum necessity.
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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
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We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq.
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My father was pretty independent. He was - he was arrested once in Nashville when he was on one of his sales trips because he had a black - guy to lunch. So that took a fair amount of courage at the time.