Nathan Lowell Quotes
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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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People often ask me why I don't take up more heroine-oriented roles. My question is, 'Where are these roles?' I really appreciate actresses who sign only films with meaty roles. However, there aren't too many of them. The industry is simply male-dominated.
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I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never done a tour before!
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Who is that person that comes around and says, 'You are OK, you are worthy, you are special?' That makes all the difference in the world for many of us. Those are the people we appreciate the most.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
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You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.
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I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.
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Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.
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I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, I've just followed my dreams.
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I always felt an outsider.
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The Arab world needs to appreciate that legitimate historical claims and modern necessities are what make Israel the homeland of the Jewish people.
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I think anybody who goes away finds you appreciate home more when you return.
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I've tried singing like somebody else, and it never worked for me. The only thing that has ever worked for me was me being me, so either you love it or not.
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I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.
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I'm a traditionalist with suits. It doesn't need extra pockets, and I don't want headphone jacks in my jacket. I appreciate designers who do different things, but for me, the most basic version of that item is what I want.
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Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss me from his staff because of my homosexuality.
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I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
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Too many writers get into that gross-'em-out factor.
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
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Sometimes you needed to be an outsider to really appreciate how things worked.
