Nancy Gibbs Quotes
Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.
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I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.
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Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.
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My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs. Then I can give myself time to tour or celebrate or write a film score.
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You have no idea how many doors closed on me and how many adults were either initially reluctant to take a chance working with me or who outright laughed at me behind my back.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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After going through that gubernatorial recount and its aftermath, you know confidence was shaken, ... So it's very important that we have good elections this time.
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As a scientist I must be mindful of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were overlooked because the new phenomenon did not fit the accepted scientific outlook of the time.
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Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
