Nathanael West Quotes
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So, I get a kick out of working with the media.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.
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The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
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I understand that a lot of girls feel encouraged by what I have been able to do, but I've never felt like I'm a role model. I'm not concerned with building a great legacy or anything because I'll be dead so it won't matter.
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They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.
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I think different teams have different challenges as you go through.
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We all know we have a prescribed amount of time on Earth. We just don't know how much.
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Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.
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Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used to go to the theater with my parents in the north of England, where I was born and brought up... Theater of all sorts.
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That is the most wonderful training an actor can have. If you can speak Shakespeare, you can speak anything. And it gives you complete poise and grace of movement.
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I know I've dreamed you, a sin and a lie I have my freedom but I don't have much time Faith has been broken, tears must be cried Let's do some living, after we die Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day…
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Remember, he was a fanatic, and there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.
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Perché il bisogno a dispogliar gli altarira' l'uom talvolta, che sel trova avere.
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Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.
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One genius is about all a house will hold.
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I used to spend a lot of time at football training, but that time was later spent in amateur acting classes and my local youth theatre, in plays at school and after-school clubs. That filled the void.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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A week after you read this chapter, misandry will become apparent in commercials, in films, in everyday conversations. But the bias that is hardest to see is the bias we share.
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Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.
