Nancy Garden Quotes
I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.Nancy Garden
Quotes to Explore
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I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.
Quinton Aaron -
I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
J. William Fulbright -
I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
V. S. Naipaul -
People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point.
Maisie Williams -
I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
Sam Shepard -
Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
Laura Linney
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I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
Larry Page -
Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.
Gale Norton -
I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.
K. A. Applegate -
The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.
Fidel Castro -
My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
Cameron Mackintosh
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Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.
Ted Nugent -
So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
Orhan Pamuk -
I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.
Walter Dean Myers -
We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
D. B. Weiss -
To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.
Wavy Gravy
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I constantly think I'll be found out any second. Some of the crazy stuff that goes through your head. Once you've moved on from the scene, that's it: it's going in the telly and there's nowt you can do about it! It's really scary.
Faye Marsay -
My husband is stricken with dementia, and it's a trick of his condition that events and people from his past are more real to him than what happened five minutes ago.
Laurie Graham -
I try to attach myself to people who really inspire me, and directors who are really passionate. That way, I can give myself more fully and trust the impulse behind why the film is being made, and I can be a little more irresponsible in finding out what the character is.
Willem Dafoe -
I believe it is extremely important for the Japanese people to strive to accurately understand this past history along with the ensuing era.
Akihito -
Rick Perry's an idiot, and I don't think anyone would disagree with that...
Bruce Bartlett -
I think kids in every minority need to see people like themselves in books; that's an acknowledgment of their existence on this planet and in this society.
Nancy Garden