Nathaniel Smith Quotes
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I've had an extraordinary life as a dancer. You tour the world, you see all the great capitals of the world, the beautiful old opera houses all over Europe - you go everywhere. As a teenager, I would always say, 'I can't believe this is happening to little me,' because it was always a dream to dance.
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I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
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If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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I condemn any form of terrorism and especially the terrorism that would affect my country and me.
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I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.
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I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to be on the same page. There are just five songs in most films these days, and they have to be amazing. There has to be a twist in the screenplay. The editing has to be crisp. Your hard work should show, but effortlessly.
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I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
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I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.
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As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.
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I love the ocean, but I'm just not one to lie on the beach.
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If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.
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I've never been a movie buff. If I did go to a theatre to watch a film, half the time, I would fall asleep.
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Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house.
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I think that part of the reason that 'Iron Man' was so successful was that we really chose to break new ground in a new area tonally, cast wise, the way we depict the hero, what his abilities are. It felt fresh in a genre that is beginning to feel stale if it's not done with the proper amount of inspiration and a strong voice or tone.
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Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
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I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.
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There is here, as in all countries, advantages and disadvantages.
