Nancy Atherton Quotes
When I learned of Aunt Dimity's death, I was stunned. Not because she was dead, but because I had never known she'd been alive.
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'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
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Stay calm and aggressive.
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I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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We are beginning to see the benefits of global consolidation.
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It was Nick Willing's intention to make 'Hatter' as sarcastically British funny as he could.
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I don't put myself on Jeff Beck's level, but I can relate to him when he says he'd rather be working on his car collection than playing the guitar.
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Good painting is nothing else but a copy of the perfections of God and a reminder of His painting. Finally, good painting is a music and a melody which intellect only can appreciate, and with great difficulty.
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The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.
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When I learned of Aunt Dimity's death, I was stunned. Not because she was dead, but because I had never known she'd been alive.
