Nancy Wake Quotes
I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
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It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I didn't want to be a number. I didn't want to be an object.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.
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I always thought golf was a game reserved for the rich and the elite... But it's a misconception. It's a highly technical game, and it's a game that you can play and master alone. You require sharp skills for it, and you can play the game alone.
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People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.
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I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.
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We changed every lead in our whole system, and to this day we still don't really know why it did it. We think wires were touching and faulting. That was it really, but it didn't make it any easier.
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The entertainment business is such a strange, crazy perception business that you're either given way too much respect, like people saying, "You should be the head of the sitcom!" Or you're given no respect, where they're like, "You should audition to be the garbage man that lives four houses down."
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
