Nat Hentoff Quotes
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Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.
Barry Jenkins -
I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
Karen McCarthy -
I do not consider myself beautiful.
Beatrice Dalle -
It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.
Uday Kotak -
All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
A. Lawrence Lowell -
Producing should be a creative responsibility.
Harold Prince
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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
Victor Koo -
Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.
Cameron Winklevoss -
As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.
X. J. Kennedy -
All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
Nas -
You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It's scary and it's exciting all rolled into one.
Vanessa Kerry
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
T. C. Boyle -
Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that was a kids' movie, but I don't think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.
Jack Black -
If you speak English, you speak at least a part of more than a hundred languages.
Anu Garg -
You put a disk here and then you put another disk that is a triangle at the other end and then you balance them on your finger and keep on adding. I don't use rectangles - they stop. You can use them; I have at times, but only when I want to block, to constipate movement.
Alexander Calder -
Community, responsibility, flexibility, tenacity - these are all things that I imbue my characters with. They are basically good, nonjudgmental people who succeed at the end of the day, sometimes in spite of themselves.
Janet Evanovich -
In 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' I play a schoolteacher who is older than I am in life - and I like that.
Katharine Ross
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The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression.
Arthur Smith -
The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different'... My goal is to help people find the rays of sunshine in an often dark world.
Gary Hallinan -
I always try to start out with some type of goal. Then I work backward and think of what I need to do to get there, and give myself smaller goals that are more immediate.
Kristi Yamaguchi -
Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.
John Podhoretz -
Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.
Nat Hentoff