Nathan Lane Quotes
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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I lived in New York for seven years, although I was always in denial about it. Even though I had an apartment there, I always pretended I was just visiting. I do love New York. But I'm a Londoner at heart.
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The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
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'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!
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I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days after seeing it, and not entertainment that is completely forgettable the moment you walk out of the theater.
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
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It sounds really corny but I think that if you're beautiful inside it shows on the outside, for sure.
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Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
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I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.
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A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.
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There's a difference between those who breed terrorism and those who fight terrorism. This difference should be recognised by the people of India.
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I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.
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The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.
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If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.
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The root of our psychological weakness was this: We socialists have never examined the problems of nations. The International was never concerned with it. The International is dead, paralyzed by events. Ten million proletarians are today on the battlefield.
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You know what Lenin says about 'intellectuals'. Individually certain of them may (politically) be declared revolutionaries, and courageous ones. But as a mass, they remain 'incorrigibly' petty-bourgeois in ideology.
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Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
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At the last second, I heard Luis call for it. It's tough to get out of the way, but that's my job. I screwed up.
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Sometimes a step forward needs a step back.
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I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of an incessant dissatisfaction that I have, that I'm always trying to either expose or fight against or wrestle with.
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Rosa Parks inspired many. She will not be forgotten.
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I'll always go back to the stage.
