Nancy Friday Quotes
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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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New Yorkers - the people are so honest. If you're sucking on stage, they'll let you know.
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We do not interfere in U.S. politics... and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.
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When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
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I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.
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I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.
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Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
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There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.
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I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
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If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.
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Fantasy isn't something you run out of.
