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
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
J. Maarten Troost
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
Rachel Dratch
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
Gary Coleman
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
Gary Weiss
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
Fran Tarkenton
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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.
Rachel Kushner
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I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.
Gary Numan
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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.
Washed Out
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Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.
Camille Paglia
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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.
Maeve Binchy
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I love Austin for vintage shopping, and there are some really good places in L.A., too.
Camila Alves
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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.
Eden Hazard
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I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.
Kevin Costner
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I made several short films with very little dialogue. I'm still not a fan of talking heads. My stories are told with images as much as possible.
Asif Kapadia
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I loved the High Line when it was just mine, when I was the only person up there, and I had a private park in New York City. I had to make an appointment to see it... I'd walk around. I was all alone.
Joel Sternfeld
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
Rachel Swirsky
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The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.
Nancy Etcoff
