Nat Hentoff Quotes
If Bill Shawn liked the piece, then he would run it. But he wanted the magazine to be something that was more than just a weekly event. And as a result you could pick up a New Yorker under him, as I mentioned before, a year from then or 10 years or 20 years and there would always be something worth reading in it.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
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'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.
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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.
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I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
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You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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I had a small-town life - I worked at the local McDonald's for three years. I'm not sure why they kept me: I am something of a daydreamer and a dawdler, so they would only let me be the 'friendly voice' that greeted you when you entered the restaurant.
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We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.
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If you do performance and music, it's not performance as music.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
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Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.
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Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That’s because my books are not to be read in the sense usually called reading: the only way it seems to me to approach the novels that I write is to catch them in the same manner that one catches an illness.
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If Bill Shawn liked the piece, then he would run it. But he wanted the magazine to be something that was more than just a weekly event. And as a result you could pick up a New Yorker under him, as I mentioned before, a year from then or 10 years or 20 years and there would always be something worth reading in it.
