Nancy Farmer Quotes
Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
Quotes to Explore
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.
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Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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I never hand in a book until it's completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He's the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit.
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I like things simple.
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'Peace through Strength' only works if you have and show strength.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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I guess I don't believe that death is the end.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.
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I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.
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I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'
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We made music that wouldn't be in synch.
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It's interesting, as I said on the last tour in America, the audience actually came out, they had to have been the kind of fans who listened to my music via their parents, you know what I mean?
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
