Nancy Farmer Quotes
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I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.
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That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.
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I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.
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If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
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It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
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I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.
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I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.
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My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
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When you broaden the little box that you've been living in for so long, it can be very uncomfortable at first.
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In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.
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I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.
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I love Fall Fashion Week because it means lots of layering, long sweaters and vintage coats.
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In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.
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Everyone and his Big Brother wants to log your browsing habits, the better to build a profile of who you are and how you live your life - online and off. Search engine companies offer a benefit in return: more relevant search results. The more they know about you, the better they can tailor information to your needs.
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One of the beauties of the Tea Party movement - and the many, many like-minded citizens that don't participate in the Tea Party movement - is the fact that it is independent.
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I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
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On the question if he would honor the results of the election should he lose:'We’re going to have to see. We’re going to see what happens. We’re going to have to see.'
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The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.
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If you're working for somebody and trying to check on them, it never works. You're just saying what they want you to say at the end of the day.
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Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.
