Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.
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I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
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If we're doing a class project, then I'm going to be the one talking and taking the lead. I might not necessarily put all of the work in the project, but I want to help and do as much as I can and get everyone going in the right direction.
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I want to play interesting women.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.
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The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.
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Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
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I sometimes think God is a s-t - and he wouldn't be worth it otherwise. He's much more interesting when he's a s-t.
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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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'Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.
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'Lambe them, lads! lambe them!' a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.
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Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.
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Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.
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Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
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If, after the end of metaphysics, which has been proclaimed by many, there is no final truth and no absolute values orienting and directing political action, then even the noblest democratic, political ideas are finally not only without a foundation; they are then without orientation and can be misused in a populist fashion.
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T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.
