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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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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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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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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If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.
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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
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Tonight I won't be alone
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The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.
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I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not?
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With any entertainment business, you sort of have to be OK with just going with it. I've learned very much to just go with the flow and see what happens with my life, and what happens happens.
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If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
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Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mamas boy and he said no, more of a papas boy. At the same time he was willing to say that his father had many shortcomings and needed to be held accountable.
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'Deadwood' proved that viewers are smarter in terms of grasping intricate dialogue than they had been given credit for.
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The position you hold and the work you are now doing.
