Nancy Atherton Quotes
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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Certainly I was a very religious child, a deeply weird and very emotional child, an only child with lots of imaginary friends and a very active imagination. I loved Sunday school and Bible camp and all that. I had my own white Bible with Jesus' words printed in red in the text; I even spoke at youth revivals.
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I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.
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The Flying Scotsman was the first train, ever, to do 100 MPH. 147 tons doing the ton.
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I am a parcel of vain strivings tiedBy a chance bond together,Dangling this way and that, their linksWere made so loose and wide,Methinks,For milder weather.
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It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.
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A decent world is built upon small acts of kindness.
