Nate McMillan Quotes
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
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After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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All of my high school issues are resolved!
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I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn't doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn't coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America.
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You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation - then we should worry.
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I don't go to clubs and throw money and pop bottles. That's not my thing, no disrespect.
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Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.
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Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.
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In this meditation we do not concentrate or control the mind. We let the mind follow its natural instinct toward greater happiness, and it goes within and it gains bliss consciousness in the being.
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The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the 'state of emergency' in which we live is not the exception but the rule.
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When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.
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And so the administration, I think, has said to the American people that it is a generational commitment to Iraq.
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The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.
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You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island.
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What I love best in life is new starts.
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My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors.
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I tell people to have a relationship with their work every day, even if it means you just move a comma.
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I thought we were aggressive. We made them work for the most part.
