Nathan Lane Quotes
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Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.
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I'm not a coach and I know it. I'm too busy and it doesn't pay. I'm expensive. But I would always advise.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
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Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
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Metro was really a star-builder, no doubt about that. You were wrapped in cotton wool.
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The Louvre for me is a wonderful experience. Because it continues; it didn't get cut off. It was actually a continuous involvement all the way, and a lot of people have come and gone, come and gone; but I'm still here.
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I was raised by just my mom. See, my father died when I was eight years old. At least, that's what he told us in the letter.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
