Nancy Farmer Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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Working with Bryan Cranston on 'Breaking Bad' has been totally thrilling because he is so clear in his approach.
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If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.
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I really like the whole urban farming idea, because I grow my own produce in L.A., and I think it's great to teach people here in Manhattan so they can do the same.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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Slow people are just paying close attention.
