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.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.
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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.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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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.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.
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Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.
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As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you speak English, you speak at least a part of more than a hundred languages.
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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.
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You get involved with a studio, and optional pictures and sequel options and that sort of thing are becoming part and parcel with the roles they're handing out.
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Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.
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I'm a feminist and the theme of her song is, 'When you're ready come and get it from me.' I'm sick of women being portrayed this way.
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I've been on a real Credence Clearwater kick. I've been collecting their albums on CD -- right now I really like 'I Put a Spell on You.' I don't know who actually wrote it; it might be a traditional, or like, an old blues song, I haven't looked in the liner notes, but it's the first song on their first album. I love all the hits; I mean @#$%&, I like every one of them. I think my favorite song by John Fogerty is 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain?' They're my favorite American band of all time, totally.
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I know Busta Rhymes for about a year now and we did a song together and we got an album together which is called "Godzilla vs. King Kong", which is going to be me and Busta. That was really the first time we rocked together on stage.
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Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.
