Nancy Gibbs Quotes
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
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The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.
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In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination...
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Love has more depth as you get older.
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There's no guarantee, and there's no proper path to follow that will directly lead you to where you want to go, but stick with it. If you know in your bones that this is what you were put on this earth to do, and the world would be a darker place without you pursuing your dreams, then keep at it.
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'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotional love story, with a spooky element.
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There's nothing wrong with being a capitalistic society, but it's taken the place of faith.
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I am the ultimate Jewish mother.
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I don't consider myself a goody-goody, but I like to be perceived as classy.
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My goal is to embrace the people, the 'natural resources' of Israel, and to build businesses with the creative Israelis.
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Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.
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Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.
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The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
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People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.
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If I'm on a date, I don't want to talk business right away. Let it feel like a date. I don't want to talk about my job right then.
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The ronin were those masterless men who roamed around, and yet they found themselves getting involved in circumstances they hadn't expected.
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My view is that targets, properly constructed and applied across public services have been fundamental to past successes and will be an essential part of sustaining progress into the future.
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We're stressing more this year to forget about numbers, just go out and do whatever it takes to win. If you have to get a guy over, get him over. Whatever you can do to get the runner into scoring position, then let the next guy drive him in.
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There's nothing efficient about innovation.
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Darling -- I suppose the world would consider us absolutely crazy, but it is wonderful to feel that way, isn't it? Sort of a perpetual springtime in our hearts.
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A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.
