Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.
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The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!
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I can be very difficult if people are not professional, or lazy - or the opposite, which is take themselves too seriously.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
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In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.
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I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you can. In fact there should be some sort of unspoken law that says that a coach cannot have anyone for three or four years - if you have not passed on most of the stuff you know in that time, then you are not doing a good job.
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Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
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I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.
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I'm a very political person, and I think things through clearly, even when I was 18 years old.
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Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.
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I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
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I am young enough to try my hands at all kinds of cinema.
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At times people in the press were also useful to me.
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Humanity's mission is to find a peace that lies beyond the veil - a peace that is not of this world. The peace that is not of this world is not dependent on human circumstances.
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If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?
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I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?
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If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.
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Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!
