Nathan Lane Quotes
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.
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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
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I often think that the ideal of our perfection that we set up, and often go through torture to achieve, may not be God's idea of how He wants us to be at all. That may be something quite different that we never would have thought of, and what seems like a failure to us may really be something bringing us closer to His will for us.
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If you're trying to do multiple agendas, you'll confuse yourself as a storyteller. If you have one purpose, everything else will fall into place.
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I like making art that's useful to people who have a harder road. Art is a tool to get through it; it's a tool to prepare for the worst. By envisioning it in an artistic context, you can make sense of it before and after it happens.
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People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.
