Nancy K. Miller Quotes
The friendships with women—the women I write about in the book and others—included work. I wanted to show how shared work—parallel or in collaboration—makes for a different kind of affection and intensity.Nancy K. Miller
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
Xavier Niel -
I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
Mackenzie Rosman -
I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.
Paige VanZant -
I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
Gary Burton -
Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
Ted Kulongoski -
It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
Vince Vaughn
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I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.
Dan Phillips -
Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
Felicity Jones -
If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.
Ted Turner -
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
Paracelsus -
Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?
Nancy Lublin -
Sometimes I like to vent.
Victoria Jackson
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
Gail Carson Levine -
My dad, Paul, is, like, my best friend.
Zach LaVine -
You tend to compose things more in the middle of frame in 3-D than you would in a conventional frame. You can really see composition in 2-D but in 3-D your composition is much more complex. Everything has to be artificially enhanced. But you do gain something else with 3-D: you have a sense of space and heightened reality.
Caleb Deschanel -
I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it, that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don't sneak in anymore.
Danica McKellar -
People should be very free with sex, but they should draw the line at goats.
Elton John -
Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.
Antonio Porchia
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There was never a moment when I was like, 'I'm going to enter the public conversation on the importance of female nudity.'
Chelsea Handler -
I was in Italy in 1992 working on magazine articles when I got a call from the Italian travel commission. They asked, would I mind being an escort for an older woman? I told them I don't do that kind of work, but then they said it was Julia Child, and I said I'd be right there.
Bob Spitz -
No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy.
Rich Lowry -
The friendships with women—the women I write about in the book and others—included work. I wanted to show how shared work—parallel or in collaboration—makes for a different kind of affection and intensity.
Nancy K. Miller