Nancy Lancaster Quotes

In restoring a house one must first realize its period, feel its personality and try to bring out its good points.

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• I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

• You can cage the singer but not the song.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Song
  • You
  • Singer

• Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Money
  • Want
  • Security

• 'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Sense8' have enjoyed great success all over the world.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Great
  • Success

• It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Up
  • You
  • Courage

• You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Never
  • Had
  • Agent

• It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

  

  E. B. White
  • Good
  • True
  • Friend

• A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Society

• '…as the cinema shows us, they are much more accessible and, for that matter, much more wanton than our own women'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Women

• People love talking of their diseases, although they are the most uninteresting things in their lives.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People

• I'm just happy I got a hole-in-one for the first time in my life.

  

  Joe Sakic
  • Life
  • Time
  • Happy

• Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations; why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too?

  

  David Hunt
  • Life
  • Why
  • Help

• Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Black

• I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• It's crazy how many nude lip crayons I own - I probably need to get rid of some.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Crazy

• When I was a young man, I shined the shoes of Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! Music was just everywhere like that. And in my family, everyone could play something, and if they couldn't play, they could sing.

  

  Chuck Brown
  • Music
  • Family
  • Shoes

• I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for.

  

  Frank Gehry
  • Model

• We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business...There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • World
  • Live
  • Business

• I still pinch myself that I ended up in Hollywood. And I am still surprised at the fans.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Up
  • Fans
  • Hollywood

• I have about 50 guitars around the house. I can't take more than a few steps without finding one to pick up.

  

  Bill Mumy
  • Up
  • House

• I found a nanny/child care position in Beverly Hills taking care of a 3-year-old and a 17-year-old. They had a large, wealthy house. I learned that I liked the way rich people lived. I learned that they were not smarter than me.

  

  Mark Burnett
  • People
  • House

• In restoring a house one must first realize its period, feel its personality and try to bring out its good points.

  

  Nancy Lancaster
  • House
  • Period
  • Personality