Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
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I do my best to stay away from dairy, especially ice cream. I've become a cookie monster whenever I want to mess around and eat something cheap.
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I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of the current Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and will continue to do so upon the addition of the routes.
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You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
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I am really precise about who I want to work with and, no matter the timeline, I push to get what I think would be cool.
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
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A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
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I'm about my characters.
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My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.
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Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.
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When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.
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Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
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Jesus Christ-who, as it turns out, was born of a virgin, cheated death, and rose bodily into the heavens-can now be eaten in the form of a cracker.
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The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the concerns of the nation are secondary.
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The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
