Nathan Rabin Quotes

#1. The smart and funny write Nathan Rabin coined the term Manic Pixie Dream Girl to describe a version of this archetype after seeing Kristen Dunst in the movie Elizabethtown.

Mindy Kaling

#2. As a young man, my father taught me a valuable lesson: never be afraid to accept a handout. Not a hand-up, mind you, as hand-ups invariably entail doing some sort of "work" at some later point. That shit's flat-out distasteful.

Nathan Rabin

#3. When I think about all the time I wasted feeling guilty and ashamed about things I should have embraced long ago, it fills me with guilt and shame.

Nathan Rabin

#4. On the other side of self-doubt comes a confidence from faith in the process. Even though our destination may be a long way off, each day we rise with a subtle smile as if we have already achieved it, because, when we are truly committed to a task, we already have.

Chris Matakas

#5. The single most important thing we can do today to ensure a strong, successful future for Wisconsin is invest in our kids early - because what we do now will determine what kind of state Wisconsin will be 10, 20, even 50 years from now.

Jim Doyle

#6. You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.

Giacomo Leopardi

#7. For someone whose goal in life was to stay unemployed, I can't imagine what I thought was going to happen. I was so terrified of everything, I just thought I'd curl up in the gutter and die, and by a complete mistake, my life turned out to be absolutely wonderful.

Deborah Eisenberg

#8. The essentials of leadership are all about the use of one's talent in the interests of society.

James Gobbo

#9. I have a DVD player and I have DVDs, and I have no time to watch any of them.

David Morse

#10. Every time you express a complaint about how difficult and tiresome it is to be creative, inspiration takes another step away from you,

Elizabeth Gilbert

#11. I cannot stress this enough: do not take powerful hallucinogens before going to a Holocaust memorial.

Nathan Rabin

#12. I once knew a man out of courtesy help a lame dog over a stile, and he for requital bit his fingers.

William Chillingworth

#13. Let me get this straight. You didn't feel it would be acceptable to enter my home without permission, but taking my clothes was just fine and dandy?" -Marin

Tracey Clark

#14. 'A Chorus Line' never dies; it just keeps opening doors and giving back to me - but there was a time when I considered it an albatross around my neck.

Donna McKechnie

#15. The day I got called up to the majors I wasn't feeling well. I had gone out with my friends for 'sodas' the night before.

John Flaherty

#16. Rocks make no compromise for sex ... rock climbing is not like some sports, where it is made easier for women; or sports like, say, softball, which is only baseball for soft people. On a rock, everything is equal.

Beverly Johnson

#17. If I were capable of human emotions, tears of joy would have been streaming down my face. You know that feeling you experience upon witnessing the birth of your first child? It was like that, only a thousand times better, because free burritos were involved.

Nathan Rabin

#18. It's weird how one moment can change everything. Forever.

Cindi Madsen

#19. An important document of the paper of record at a crucial, make-or-break juncture in its long, glorious history, and a love letter to the dying art form that is the great American newspaper.

Nathan Rabin

#20. People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that.

Aaron Tveit