Nathan Eldon Tanner Quotes
Self-discipline is doing what you know you should do when you don't want to do it.
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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'Material' is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that's in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don't need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.
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I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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I'd love to get into the hospitality industry, but I just don't have the time.
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I think a lot about when times were simpler, when I was still dancing and living with my parents. I really miss living at home sometimes. I get really sad.
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
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At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone.
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The last possible deed is that which defines perception itself, an invisible golden chord that connects us: illegal dancing in the courthouse corridors.
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I don't want to be one of those guys that you see who made $4 million, invested $3.5 million, and now you work at Wendy's.
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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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I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'
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Self-discipline is doing what you know you should do when you don't want to do it.
