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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
T. C. Boyle
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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 -
The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression.
Arthur Smith
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The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because God has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.
Tertullian -
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.
Tom Stoppard -
Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.
Nat Hentoff