Nathan Vincent Duvall Quotes
If everyone believes in your ideas, they’re probably not that great.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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I came into politics by accident. I may go out of politics by accident.
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I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
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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 I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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I was the kid at six who was like, 'I want to be in a jazz club.' I was never the pop kid, ever. I mean that's not true, I had a couple years where I wanted to be Tiffany and Debbie Gibson, but aside from that, no.
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The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I'm a late-night guy.
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Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me and what I find beautiful in movies personally – that almost obscene sense that we shouldn't be this close to these people. I find that very inviting and meaningful as an audience member.
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...modern poetry is necessarily obscure; if the reader can’t get it, let him eat Browning...
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Every text assumes a reader.
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I also couldn't pass up the opportunity to be in the same movie as Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close.
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In order to survive, you have to be alone with yourself to regenerate the spirit.
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If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.
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As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought 'Dead End' had a great story; 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' of course, was probably the first real horror film I was in.
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I believe that the biggest mistake that most people make when it comes to their retirement is they do not plan for it. They take the same route as Alice in the story from "Alice in Wonderland," in which the cat tells Alice that surely she will get somewhere as long as she walks long enough. It may not be exactly where you wanted to get to, but you certainly get somewhere.
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If everyone believes in your ideas, they’re probably not that great.
