Nancy Gibbs Quotes
Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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I grew up thinking I had very little value. It's not something I felt I could share with my mom so it was all inside me.
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Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me and what I find beautiful in movies personally – that almost obscene sense that we shouldn't be this close to these people. I find that very inviting and meaningful as an audience member.
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I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them for political reasons, but because, as I see it, most interesting things - social, political, emotional - take place there. It's a bottomless well for an author like me.
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Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.
