Nate Parker Quotes

I immediately felt the need, back when I was a managing tech engineer, to attach myself to Nat Turner. And to research him and learn about him and try to find ways into his life that I could apply to my life.

Nate Parker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeMyselfResearchLearnMy Life

My mother and father always supported my passion for acting. I think they just kind of expected me to move to New York and become an actress and have all these adventures.

Jennifer Garner

FatherMotherPassionNew YorkMe

I just try to write the best story I can, a story I would love to read, and hope that readers feel the same.

Jennifer McMahon

LoveHopeBestStoryFeelI Can

I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.

John Irving

CharacterTimeStoryAlwaysWhere

They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty.

Robert Green Ingersoll

PowerMistakesLibertyEnemiesGain

The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Socrates

OnlyGodsPoets

When I see films like 'Lagaan' and 'Rang De Basanti,' I feel, 'Why can't I do work like this?' Then you think and realise you need to learn more to make this kind of a film or write this kind of a film. Also, somewhere down the line, you need to be brave.

Rohit Shetty

WorkBraveThinkFeelLearnYou

It's all very brilliant to build bridges and buildings, but long after we're gone, it will be the natural things in this world which will still be here.

Rupert Friend

WorldBridgesLongBuildingsBuild

A certain kind of person in America loves to note that they're currently soldiering through the latest Pulitzer winner for history, in particular. It connotes a certain gravitas, a connectedness to the literary and intellectual scene that most upwardly mobile professionals in America still desire.

Michelle Dean

HistoryAmericaWinnerPersonDesire

In most legislatures, punctilious attention to correct usage is considered elitist. The word 'government,' for example, is normally pronounced 'gummint'; bureaucracy is 'bureaucacy'; fiscal comes out 'physical,' and one moves not to suspend the rules, but to 'suppend.'

Molly Ivins

GovernmentAttentionRulesOutMost

We need the federal government to assert their supremacy over the immigration issue and make it clear to state legislatures, cowboy cops, and the American people that the federal government is in charge and effectively enforcing and regulating immigration.

Luis Gutierrez

GovernmentPeopleAmericanNeedOver

When I choose projects, I don't stipulate between film or theatre or television. I receive scripts and I read scripts - and when I read a script that's good, I then get married to it and talk to my agent about what happens next.

Dominic Monaghan

GoodTheatreChooseTelevisionTalk

No matter what fabulous place I visit, I don't feel like I'm on vacation unless I'm dehydrated and covered with sunscreen.

Chelsea Cain

VacationFeelPlaceMatterFabulous

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