Nate Robinson Quotes
When I was younger, I was a bit of a feisty fighter type of guy. That's something my father told me as I was becoming a man: 'You don't go picking fights, but you don't run from any of them.' And I was more afraid of my father than anybody else I had to fight.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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I think I can change the game.
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I find that I'm really attracted to mysterious creatives, and I love people that are able to put their emotions out there for not just the world to see, but just that are giving of their emotions, but a little bit mysterious and elusive as well.
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I was lucky enough to spend some of my school days in Barbados, where my father was working, and this gave me a taste for hot weather.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.
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When I was younger, I was a bit of a feisty fighter type of guy. That's something my father told me as I was becoming a man: 'You don't go picking fights, but you don't run from any of them.' And I was more afraid of my father than anybody else I had to fight.
