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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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.
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For each person, they live their life and their truth and how it works for them, and that's just kind of how it works for me. I'm not good at doing whatever the other way is - it wouldn't work for me.
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I Love you so much, I don't care what you think.
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Slow people are just paying close attention.
