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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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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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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On a piece of prose, you have to work at least six hours a day. I don't know how you can do that and teach and raise a kid and paint the house.
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We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power.
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Learn to write when you would rather sleep. Learn to exercise this gift of language when no conscious portion of your wits can vibrate anything but worry. Learn to write so, my son, and you can call yourself a writer.
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In reality shows, you have to perform once and prove yourself, and after that, it is a process to prove yourself every day.
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As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someone I've highly respected and seen them roll an eye as my mouth has mangled yet another magnificently conceived, clumsily articulated sentence. In my mind, the words are mellifluous as honey. In my mouth, they are shards of glass.
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I thought we were aggressive. We made them work for the most part.
