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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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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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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I'd love to get into the hospitality industry, but I just don't have the time.
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The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.
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In sport, all my fellow riders and trainers and the people I meet and deal with have just accepted the fact that I'm here forever.
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But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.
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At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.
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...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.
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Self-discipline is doing what you know you should do when you don't want to do it.
