Nancy Greene Quotes
Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.
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There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
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No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
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People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.
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As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
