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.
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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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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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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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I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.
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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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I would tell filmmakers: 'Don't just be seduced by the same old, same old. There are interesting things you can explore that may get your film out there to audiences better than the traditional distribution mechanisms.'
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When you love what you do, you just really fall in love with it. Sometimes you record a lot more songs than the album will even hold. You record like 300 songs and only 12 songs go on the album. It takes time. But if you love what you do, it works out.
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The ocean of solutions is within, enliven that. ... It's a world of clues, a world of mystery but the mystery can get solved, you can find a lot of answers for these things within.
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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.
