Nancy Friday Quotes
Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.
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Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
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I've had a fast track to who I want to be. I know all of my friends are struggling to what to pick in college, and I've been given a fast pass to kick start my future.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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In space, you need to exercise your heart since it's not pumping blood around at the same rate.
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When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
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I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
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The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.
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I went through so many phases because I moved schools a lot. I grew up primarily in Connecticut, but also here in L.A. for five years.
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The key to a good horror movie is what happens between the scares. The scares aren't the tricky part. If you're involved in what's going on in between, the scare is going to trick you. If you're not, the best scare in the world will not be scary.
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All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.
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Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
