Nathanael Emmons Quotes
Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.
Quotes to Explore
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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I don't like a lot of rehearsing.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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It's not enough for just us to invest in Utah; more and more, we are encouraging businesses around the world to follow suit. We want them to invest in and become part of Utah's future and to allow Utah to invest and become part of theirs.
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I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.
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My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
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There's a good lesson for policymakers: It's not the presence of the U.S. that is a problem for many people in the Arab region; it's the type of presence we bring.
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I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
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I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.
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I'm an extraordinarily anxious person. I'm a typical actor: narcissistic and paranoid and all them things.
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I eat some fruit every day, but not too much and almost no processed food. I stay away from sweets, except 80 per cent chocolate.
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While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
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To me, one of the big fears of doing a big huge graphic novel is locking yourself into one style and getting halfway through it and going, 'Oh I made the wrong choice,' which is a recurring nightmare I have.
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Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.
