Nat Faxon Quotes
I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.
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I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village.
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Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them. You don't know what they're going to wreck and destroy.
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I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
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It's amazing how kind everyone is here in the U.S.
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I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.
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I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.
