Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I think we can launch - successfully, high quality - around 20 original scripted shows a year, which means every 2 1/2 to three weeks you're launching a new season or a new show on Netflix meant to be for really diverse tastes all around the world.
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We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.
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Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.
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I'm really tired of virtue.
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They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.
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'Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You start taking on things that sometimes I feel are out of our control. That's what basically fuels my creative side.
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Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins.
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I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.
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When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I was really disappointed because it was not at the level I saw in movies. It was not the level of the image I'd imagined.
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I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.
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A river reaches places which its source never knows. And Jesus said that, if we have received His fullness, "rivers of living water" will flow out of us, reaching in blessing even "to the end of the earth" regardless of how small the visible effects of our lives may appear to be.
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It took a lot of courage to take the high road, but I would rather be significant with six million people watching a show with meaning, than everyone watching a show with no meaning.
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I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.
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The capacity for tears is the last demonstration of greatness.
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The U.S. position on Jerusalem was not the reason why there hasn't been progress towards peace. The reason is that both the Israeli government and the Palestinian leadership are divided. And there is an enormous gap between Israelis and Palestinians. To say that this decision is only recognizing reality, that Jerusalem is the actual capital of Israel - well, that's true. But it's a selective recognition of reality.
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A kiss with the right person simply can't be compared to the drudgery of sleeping with the wrong one over and over.
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave -
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We be of one blood, ye and I.
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The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.
