Nancy Farmer Quotes
The other girls in the village never felt restless. Nhamo was like a pot of boiling water. 'I want...I want...,' she whispered to herself, but she didn't know what she wanted and she had no idea how to find it.
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I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go from braids, to weaves, to wigs, to natural hair.
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I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents.
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There are a lot of really great cartoonists out there. It's nice to be thought of as one of them.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
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Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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I like movies in particular, on video or T.V. I have lots of old favorites, like Danny Kaye in 'The Court Jester' or 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' or James Stewart in 'Winchester '73.' But I also like a lot of modern films.
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You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
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I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
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Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.
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Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.
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I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
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I went through my entire athletic life as a basketball player with only minimal physical setbacks, the worst being a couple of brain concussions, one in a college game in 1948, the other in 1954 while playing in the Eastern League, from which I recovered without permanent damage.
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The best thing about having my very first audition lead me to an Oscar nomination means that I don't have to struggle the rest of my career to be nominated for an Oscar, to prove that I'm a great actress, because I've already done it. Now I can do things that just make me happy.
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I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.
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'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
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A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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The other girls in the village never felt restless. Nhamo was like a pot of boiling water. 'I want...I want...,' she whispered to herself, but she didn't know what she wanted and she had no idea how to find it.
