Nathan Eldon Tanner Quotes
Integrity, or the lack of it, touches almost every facet of our lives-everything we say, every thought and desire.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
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Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I'm independent. I'm very happy with that.
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I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.
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That Lana Del Rey is quite cute, isn't she? I quite like her.
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I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.
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Everything that is large and institutional should be distrusted, even though it may be the best around. The Internal Revenue Service doesn't trust me, so why should I trust them? It's a quid pro quo arrangement.
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Deus est omnium rerum causa immanens, non vero transiens
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Where the bricks are fallen We will build with new stone Where the beams are rotten We will build with new timbers Where the word is unspoken We will build with new speech There is work together A Church for all And a job for each Every man to his work.
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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
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Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
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I can do more than anyone suspects. I pride myself on my versatility. It took 32 years of difficult parts, second leads, villains and juveniles. The Oscar changed the quality of the roles I was being offered.
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School was horrific for me, constantly an outcast for being a geek.
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I want to avoid becoming too styled, too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else. They start out with something individual about them, but it gets lost.
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If you want to play it safe, mix a lot of colors in the same tone and that is such an easy way to feel modern and feel a little confident.
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Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed.
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To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there's a mix of excitement and fear. If it's a wet track, then it's worse as you're not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most.
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I did 'Narnia' because it was a good opportunity and all that, but really? I wanted to play Mr. Tumnus because he's my favourite children's character. That was awesome.
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Integrity, or the lack of it, touches almost every facet of our lives-everything we say, every thought and desire.
