Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
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Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
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When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.
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Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.
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I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.
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My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
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I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.
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It's fair to characterise me as competitive and determined, but anyone who works with me will attest to the fact I believe very strongly in the notion of servant leadership.
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I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.
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I'm addicted to avocados, and I'll put them with anything, particularly chillies. Can you imagine if they became extinct? That would be like the apocalypse, no?
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In general, you don't want competitors to understand your business outside of telling people your revenue and profitability numbers.
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Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That's kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along.
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I've never lost the passion for playing, but I've learned the realities of it all, and how hard it is. The music business is a tough business, but I would never tell anybody not to get into it. The first thing you have to have is the love of it and enjoy doing it. That's the most important part.
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Toughening up, performing masculinity, pretending to enjoy things I didn't enjoy all enabled me to dodge the gender policing of the adults around me. But the way I really was - the swished hips, the Double-Dutching, the hair flips - seemed to always prevail and attract Dad's disdain.
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The position you hold and the work you are now doing.
