Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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My son is old enough to respond to my work. To me, that's what it is all about.
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How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie? Like, I wanted to write this one director a letter, so I wrote him a handwritten note. But then I was like, 'How many people are writing this guy handwritten letters? Is it going to seem cheesy? What do I do?'
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Unless you write your own movies... you can't really say what you want to say.
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I often pass a farm with cows grazing in the field and I think to myself how terrible it is that human beings grow other animals just to kill them and eat them. Most of us think of vegetarians as nuts and I'm not a vegetarian but I wouldn't be surprised if we came to a time in 50 or 100 years when civilized people everywhere refused to eat animals.
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