Nina Blackwood Quotes
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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I don't see a lot of nature in L.A. Then again, I don't see a lot when I go back to St. Louis, either.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.
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I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.
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Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.
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Even if a company is taken private, at some stage people want to make it public.
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And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,None knew so well as I:For he who lives more lives than oneMore deaths than one must die.
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As for their healers and their worship of gold books of old lore, there had been tribal stories of this, too, all nonsense, as anything chattered by the ill-informed must be.
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There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.
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It used to upset me - now it makes me sad - to see people use patriotism and our troops as a pawn in their political argument. Because I know personally, growing up in a military family, the sacrifice that is made on a daily basis.
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We know that if religion is allowed into schools, pupils will sometimes begin to question the teaching they receive.
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In heaven, all ordinary thought is higher and more melodious than Milton's song. Then, would he add another verse to any strain that he had left unfinished here?
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One man alone is too much for one man alone.
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Interviewing people is pretty natural for me.
