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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With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.
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I've got children and it's still this one thing that I feel incredibly proud about, when my children are in the playground with their friends and they know about 'Doctor Who'. It's a great feeling. I can sit down with them and watch the new 'Doctor' with my kids.
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Strangers had met and created a true sporting masterpiece - a tapestry of daring and shot-making brilliance that they draped in Laver Arena.
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I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.
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How do you trust a government whose people are proved to be untrustworthy?
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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.
