Nathan Englander Quotes

I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes.

Nathan Englander

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MyselfWayAlwaysOptimistPessimist

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

Andrei Platonov

TruthFeelAliveWithoutAshamed

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

John le Carre

WarPerceptionRealityKnowWhy

I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're not waiting to be picked. That said, in film school I acted in probably 6,000 student films because no other filmmakers knew anyone who wanted to act. It was all a big beautiful snake eating its tail, progressing along the way.

Matthew Gray Gubler

BeautifulSchoolWaitingControlYou

When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good.

John Pomfret

GoodEyesMyselfBestBelieveThink

Mental health is a continuum, and people may fall anywhere on the spectrum.

Amy Morin

HealthPeopleMental HealthFallMay

It doesn't feel that good when you're ahead the whole way.

Steve Prefontaine

GoodFeelYouAheadWayWhole

I'm not just a politician, I'm a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education.

Roy Romer

EducationCommitmentDeepRealGuy

Though I didn't quite plan it that way, I had my two sons at just about the same ages my mother saw me and my sister off to college, and my first novel was published when I was 46. This 'tardiness' isn't something I'm proud of, but I'm happy to be an inspiration to others who arrive at these milestones later than most of us do.

Julia Glass

MotherHappyCollegeMeSisterPlan

My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career.

Jon Secada

GreatCollegeMeArtistCareerBeen

Since 'Y Tu Mama Tambien,' I started to spend a lot of time in the United States, and my son was born there.

Diego Luna

SonTimeBornMamaUnitedStarted

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Winston Churchill

OpinionPublic OpinionOnlyPublished

Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music business learned much too late.

Tucker Max

BusinessMusicPeopleEasyLate

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