Nathan Lane Quotes
A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
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I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.
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The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
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End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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I try to avoid wearing black because sometimes it's the easy option. But I'm young, so it's nice to be able to play with color and not just wear black all the time. I can save that for when I'm older.
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In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.
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I think there are ways that graduate students can fact-check their work. I think there are ways that we can do this that don't require massive amounts of resources.
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If I have food in the house and I'm laying in bed, I go, 'I bet that Captain Crunch is lonely in the cupboard.'
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Women are so policed and devalued and dehumanized when it comes to the work they do.
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A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.
