Nancy Farmer Quotes

My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people surrounded by corrupt and evil power structures. It's always a battle to stay on the side of good.

Nancy Farmer

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• In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Eyes
  • Hair
  • Blue

• Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Travel
  • Exercise
  • Shoes

• Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Good
  • Great
  • Business

• Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Different
  • War
  • motivation

• It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• There is no better high than discovery.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • High
  • Better
  • Discovery

• In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Good
  • Film
  • Stars

• I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Challenge

• I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

  

  Pat Cash
  • You
  • Tennis
  • McDonald

• Life started getting good when I started making money.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Life
  • Good
  • Money

• We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Car
  • Same
  • Test

• A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Great
  • High

• I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Love
  • Think
  • Choices

• I'm a runner first before anything else.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • First
  • Anything
  • Before

• I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Happy
  • Relationship
  • Very

• I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Think
  • Always
  • Alignment

• I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.

  

  Larry David
  • Walking
  • Dying
  • Talking

• When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Up
  • Painting
  • New York

• In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Long
  • Why

• Brandy is the great cause of destruction for the aborigines of America.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Great
  • America
  • Destruction

• Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • Success
  • Small
  • Failure

• I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• I brush it, brush it after every practice and stuff, just because it gets tangled. It's just all natural, let it grow, let it be, let it be real.

  

  Eric Weddle
  • Real
  • Practice
  • Tangled

• My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people surrounded by corrupt and evil power structures. It's always a battle to stay on the side of good.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Power