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Nate Parker Quotes

The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: November 18, 1979

Topics

Opportunity American Dream American

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

Ideas Construction Start Write Plot

My mother helped to integrate the local elementary school in the nineteen-sixties.

Mother School Elementary School Local

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

Live Doing Poverty More Somewhere

The French cook; we open tins.

John Galsworthy

Food Open Cook French

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.

Failure Money You Being Writer

I'm passionate about people. I've spent my life in advocacy. People matter - whether or not we agree on the issue, people matter.

Ann Marie Buerkle

Life People My Life Passionate Agree

When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

Jeff Vandermeer

Plants World Think You Look Dumb

What has started to interest me is how you use all the different disciplines and tools we have at our disposal, and that includes going into different art forms, like music and movement, because often they can tap into things that characters can't necessarily express through words. Audiences really enjoy that total experience.

Music Art Experience Words Me Tools

When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.

Success Winner Long Look Situation

I had a few pimples here and there when I was 14. Never had braces though, thank God. A girl in my class had, like, the big helmet of head gear. I felt so bad for her. People always made fun of me enough because of my name.

Girl God Fun People Me Thank God

If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio.

Black American Help You Kid Radio

I want kids to understand that strength doesn't come from what goes on around you. It comes from inside you, and that comes from Jesus Christ.

Strength You Want Understand Inside

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