Nancy Etcoff Quotes

The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.

Nancy Etcoff

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • Travel
  • Connection
  • Gift

• Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Like
  • Scene
  • Theater

• I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Want

• Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Waiting
  • Playing
  • Nervous

• I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Want
  • Now
  • Everyone

• Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • World
  • Old
  • Sail

• There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Live
  • You
  • Crying

• I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Time
  • Me
  • Genre

• You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we're talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system.

  

  D'Angelo
  • People
  • Trying
  • Family

• I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Long
  • Book
  • Quality

• I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Up
  • Very

• I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.

  

  Washed Out
  • World
  • Growing
  • Magic

• Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Work
  • Women
  • Home

• I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Wonderful

• I love Austin for vintage shopping, and there are some really good places in L.A., too.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Good
  • Shopping
  • Vintage

• That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Respect
  • Football
  • Reason

• My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Professional

• You men make up these rules, and now you get mad because I'm telling you what a real woman wants. She wants you to treat her like a lady if you want her to sit up there and put on all the lingerie!

  

  Loni Love
  • Up
  • Men
  • Real

• If I have a long period of time away from acting, I tend to write.

  

  Charlie Hunnam
  • Time
  • Long
  • Period

• I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Quiet

• I'm deeply in love with my wife, and she's my best friend, and yet we share different viewpoints of life, which I think is one of the things that holds our marriage together. She came from Texas, and she has an optimistic view of life. I came from Detroit and have a very pessimistic view.

  

  David Small
  • Life
  • Different
  • She

• When a minister or a clergyman takes seriously unfashionable Christian doctrines which condemn sex outside marriage, homosexuality, abortion, and feminism, and injects his views into the political debate, he is immediately denounced as a 'reactionary.'

  

  Benjamin Hart
  • Marriage
  • Feminism
  • Christian Doctrine

• The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.

  

  Nancy Etcoff
  • Marriage
  • Interactions
  • Remarks