Nathaniel Parker Quotes
Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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I'm still dreaming to be the next Missy Elliott.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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To be honest, I owned one suit before I filmed 'Mad Men' - the one suit that you have to have as an adult. Outside of that, I never really felt comfortable in a suit.
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I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.
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You should never go on diet and must follow a healthy lifestyle.
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The people in New York want to achieve something; the people in L.A., they just want to achieve success.
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All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia.
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I'm 33 years old now. I really want that ring. I got a taste of it here.
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In Syria, for some time, they have been trading hostages for a number of things: for weapons, for money, for political influence, and for favors.
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One of the achievements of our generation of feminists was to emancipate women from the division between being interested in clothes and appearance, and being serious and ambitious. I am of the first generation that could go to Biba, wear miniskirts and get a degree.
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When I first went to college, I went into physics, and my goal was to help perfect nuclear fusion so I could solve the energy crisis and global warming. I probably would have done it, too, if I'd stuck to it.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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Honestly, I think it's kind of corny to sit and watch your own work.
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Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long.
