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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We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
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Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.
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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 feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.
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When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
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If we have the intent to use the military only when needed, then that also becomes, then, therefore, a credible deterrent.
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It seems like, to me, somewhere between 30 and 35 is a really, really good time to turn your eggs into babies.
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If you want to get along, go along.
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Self-discipline is doing what you know you should do when you don't want to do it.
