Nathaniel Kahn Quotes
I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never got to that point.
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB.com, NYTimes.com, Slate and maybe Facebook.
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We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.
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The effect of sanctions on the Russian economy are clear to everybody, first to the Russians and to the Russian leadership, and the surroundings of the Russian leadership, the circle that is close to the Russian political leadership.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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I would say I am an ordinary bowler but one with a really big heart, and that's what has stood me in good stead in all these years.
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People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.
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My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.
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Trust your father. He is not perfect, but he loves you and would never do anything he didn't think was in your best interest. So talk to him. Share your thoughts and feelings, your dreams and your fears. The more he knows about your life, the better chance he has to understand your concerns and to give you good counsel.
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You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.
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I survived many a youth hostel bunk room reading Tolstoy by flashlight.
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In college, I pretty much abandoned music and started performing with the school's improv and sketch troupe, and at some point, that became my permanent thing.
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I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never got to that point.
