Nathan Lane Quotes
It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
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Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
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Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.
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Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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I wouldn't consider myself a so-called 'celebrity.' Arrrgh, for the love of God!
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
