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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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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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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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.
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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
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Freedom is not genuine if some people are too poor or too weak to enjoy it, and equality is not genuine if some people are ruled by others. The crucial contribution to political theory made by anarchists is this realization that freedom and equality are in the end the same thing.
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I'm trying to get my head in the game, think about the questions I wanted to ask, breast milk is flying everywhere - over my notes - and I - how do you 'lean in' at that moment? What is the equivalent of that for Wolf Blitzer or Joe Scarborough?
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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.
