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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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.
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If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.
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I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.
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Love advice is like life advice, so there are so many elements of that. I think humor, patience, admiration are really important love elements. Love and respect. You have to respect the person that you're going to love, and you have to be confident in yourself and love yourself.
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Young children are not prejudiced against languages, unlike many adults, ... They are not afraid of having a go, of interacting with others linguistically. Later on, their hormones tend to get in the way.
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What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is.
