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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History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms of certificates, diplomas, or degrees. Diplomas and tests are useful servants, but Congress has mandated the commonsense proposition that they are not to become masters of reality.
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My message to women - including women of color - stand strong. Refuse to be minimized or patronized. Let all the small guys out there be intimidated by you.
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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
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To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.
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I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.
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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.
