Nathan Englander Quotes
I'm kind of in love with my theater agent. I'm a true naive about the theater, a total innocent.
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.
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If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
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Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.
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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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There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
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Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.
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I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.
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When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.
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I like to take music from everywhere and put it in my style and let it be accepted.
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I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'
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I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
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With the tentacles of branding reaching into every crevice of youth culture, leaching brand-image content not only out of street styles like hip-hop but psychological attitudes like ironic detachment, the cool hunt has had to go further afield to find unpilfered space and that left only one frontier: the past.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Your mind is all you truly have.
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I think of myself as a Romantic Symbolist.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
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All of my dad's family, his brothers and sisters, my nana and grandad and all of the cousins emigrated to Australia within two years of each other. Irish families are close at the best of times, but when you move to the other side of the world, we were like a big posse over there.
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An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.
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I'm kind of in love with my theater agent. I'm a true naive about the theater, a total innocent.
