Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
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I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.
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You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.
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Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?
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I have found an honest and excellent man Eugène Manet, brother of Edouard Manet who, I believe, sincerely loves me. I have entered into the positive life after having lived for a long time in by chimeras.
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Only good questions deserve good answers.
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perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which will shout no, and ask questions, defend the few, attack cruelty and proclaim the rights and dignity of man. ... America is going to look very strange to Americans and they will not be at home here, for the air will slowly become unbreathable to all forms of life except sheep.
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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
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I've been in this game since 1937. My biggest thrill was when I was in Milwaukee and I told them I was leaving. It was the loudest ovation I ever got.
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But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
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A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He will, however, try to understand the viewpoints of his opponents and will always keep an open mind and seek every opportunity of serving his opponents.
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A fool's bolt is soon shot.
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We don't swim for the attention. We don't swim to be rock stars. There is something beautiful about being in an anonymous sport and being fairly anonymous. It enables you do something you love without any of the other effects.
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It changed my life in terms of what it did to my health, and what it did to my view of making games, and my relationships with people.
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You begin to understand that warriorship is a path or a thread that runs through your entire life. It is not just a technique that you apply when you are unhappy or depressed. Warriorship is a continual journey. To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life. That is the warrior's discipline.
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There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do.
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Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
