Nathan Parsons Quotes
As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
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Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
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When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.
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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.
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He's just a good kid. I didn't understand half the things he was telling me, but it was fun.
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I pretty much grew up in Pasadena just like any other kid who grows up in Pasadena.
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No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition... It is a disgrace for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable.
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It's like with any art, there's always something new to develope, new colours, deepness, awareness, beauty. Each generation has new fields to develope, to work out, making life itself into art.
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As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories.
