Nathan Oliveira Quotes
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I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.
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If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.
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Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.
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There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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Creating sustainable jobs means doubling down on Baltimore's formidable strengths.
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I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have energy and want to work out or go-out party mixes and music to chill out to.
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I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character.
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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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I believe that the FBI clearly was concerned, wanted to monitor and disrupt Malcolm X wherever possible.
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It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.
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There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.
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What if she figures out you're not very smart?
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Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.
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Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.
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And I don't consider Broadway the acropolis of theatrical art. I mean Broadway is commercial - that's what it is. It's expensive seats and a lot of them that have to be filled every night. Off-Broadway and off-off Broadway as far as I'm concerned is in New York the pride of New York theater.
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I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes.
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I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its women, which is that they be thin and nonthreatening. Anorexia signifies that a young woman is so delicate that, like the women of China with their tiny broken feet, she needs a man to shelter and protect her from a world she cannot handle. Anorexic women signal with their bodies "I will take up only a small amount of space. I won't get in the way." They signal "I won't be intimidating or threatening." (Who is afraid of a seventy-pound adult?)
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We are very concerned by the serious deterioration of the security situation in Gaza.
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In the right circumstances, MDMA reduces or sometimes eliminates the neurophysiological fear response to a perceived threat to one's emotional integrity... With a barrier of fear removed, a loving and forgiving awareness seemed to occur quite naturally and spontaneously.
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I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.
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You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.
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What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is.
