Nathan Englander Quotes
Sometimes I feel like those born-again folk, always working on their faith, but I'm always working on my atheism. We all have our struggles.
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.
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You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
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I have an hourglass shape, and I think it's important to understand your body type and your personality type. Then make whatever is on trend and in fashion work for you.
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I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.
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I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
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The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
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I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.
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For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right.
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And all at once I lost my breathAnd all at once was scared to deathFor all at once I owned the earth and sky.Now I've met Miss JonesWe'll keep on meeting till we die,Yes, Miss Jones and I.
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I only have disdain for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He raised taxes and has increased regulations. What else is new? He's a bully who wants to micro-manage people's lives by mandate, not persuasion.
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In my business, guys may age, but it's not even a question they're valued. But women my age are supposed to disappear.
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I can reach the mass audience if I come from different perspectives on every song.
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Some of the most rewarding times my brothers and I have are when all of us get together, and we can see what we've been building genetically and culturally.
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I've done a lot of movies, but my favorite was 'Blind Faith.'
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We must not think, 'Well, we have all the truth, we understand the main pillars of our faith, and we may rest on this knowledge.' The truth is an advancing truth, and we must walk in the increasing light.
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
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An invisible man can rule the world. Nobody will see him come, nobody will see him go. He can hear every secret, he can rob, rapeand kill.
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I think 'Bat Out Of Hell' will probably last forever.
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Sometimes I feel like those born-again folk, always working on their faith, but I'm always working on my atheism. We all have our struggles.
