Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes

The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

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• I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.

  

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• I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.

  

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• A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

  

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• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

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• I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.

  

  Candice Bergen
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• As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.

  

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• I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.

  

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• I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
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• It seems that in the rush to be the first one to the story, the media overstates things. Not maliciously; I don't think they're intentionally misleading. But the credibility gap is already there, and in this rush to get to the story first, a lot of mainstream outlets just erode their credibility further.

  

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• I've had a very full and lovely career so far, and I can't honestly say that I've ever really found myself in a man's world, struggling for an identity or trying to prove something.

  

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• I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.

  

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• I go to various boot camps 4-5 times a week, and I try to get some Pilates in there to thin and tone.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
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• It's going to sound ridiculous, but knowing how to pose, how to maintain a level of engagement and variation for a day of shooting, is actually a skill.

  

  Cameron Russell
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• I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.

  

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• I've gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show.

  

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• One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it became a book, 'I Already Know I Love You.' It was one of those really lovely things in life.

  

  Billy Crystal
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• Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully.

  

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• A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

  

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• My attention is constantly being caught! I'm constantly learning, constantly becoming fascinated by new things - I'm lucky that I read incredibly quickly and absorb a lot of information easily, because otherwise I don't think I'd ever get my head out of a book!

  

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• We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.

  

  Doc Hastings
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• Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles.

  

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• The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Book
  • Rain
  • Flying