Nancy Etcoff Quotes
The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.
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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.
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Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.
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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.
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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.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'
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Imagine feeling like every kiss goodbye to your loved ones each day might be your last kiss. Police officers and their families feel this way every single day.
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Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.
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The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.
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But I'll say this: I've never been more honored to sing about Jesus and for Jesus. And I've never been more sure of the path I've chosen.
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I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.
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I think long-lasting, healthy relationships are more important than the idea of marriage. At the root of every successful marriage is a strong partnership.
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The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.
