Nancy Farmer Quotes

The high point of your life was when you knocked me down...

Nancy Farmer

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• I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Long
  • Thought
  • Wrong

• It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Fun
  • Know
  • Gay

• The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.

  

  Larry Poons
  • Past
  • Simple
  • Now

• If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Money
  • Individual
  • Pay

• When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Die
  • Day
  • Myself

• I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.

  

  Manika
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Journey

• We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Life
  • Without
  • Newspaper

• Rich Swann is probably the only guy who's more charismatic among this whole bunch than me, and I think it showed in our match.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Think
  • Guy
  • Match

• I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • College
  • Football
  • Sports

• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Serious

• It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Life
  • World
  • Impossible

• Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • World
  • Young

• The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • School
  • America
  • High

• Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Parents
  • Struggle
  • Cost

• The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Time
  • Success
  • Failure

• If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • America
  • Racism
  • Asian

• If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Vision

• Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Movie
  • House
  • Day

• I am not an atheist but an earthiest.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Atheist

• For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Life
  • Time
  • Country

• The only real inspiration or muse that I have is just the life that I live.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Muse

• If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Life

• And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Problem
  • Less

• The high point of your life was when you knocked me down...

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Life
  • Point
  • Knocked Down