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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Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. The shame doesn't even belong to us, but we still experience it because we're a part of the African race. If it happened to one, it happened to all. We carry that burden.
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Modern authority is based on a system of lies that are accepted by the general population. If you pull away the curtain and show the reality of power, people are motivated to question the fictions that govern their own lives.
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We can't ever forget that the Internet now is just a staid utility. The exciting platforms are software applications that are very, very simple.
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Before 'Wings' came out, I told a few people that at the end of book one, readers should think Laurel made the right choice. Then, at the end of 'Spells,' they should understand why Laurel made the choice she did.
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The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong.
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Slow people are just paying close attention.
