Nathan Lane Quotes
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
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The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.
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I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
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What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.
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I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.
