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.
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I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.
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'Orange Is the New Black' and 'Sense8' have enjoyed great success all over the world.
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When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.
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It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
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You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.
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I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.
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'…as the cinema shows us, they are much more accessible and, for that matter, much more wanton than our own women'
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People love talking of their diseases, although they are the most uninteresting things in their lives.
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I'm just happy I got a hole-in-one for the first time in my life.
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Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations; why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too?
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Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.
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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.
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It's crazy how many nude lip crayons I own - I probably need to get rid of some.
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I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself. This meant that I had to come to understand Moses well enough to believe in my portrayal of him.
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Actors look at life in a different way. When I meet people, I know that one day I may portray that person or someone like them. It may be a cop or a homeless guy. It helps you to pay more attention to people. Everyone I meet, I retain something from them, something from their personality. It helps me to portray realism in my work.
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The principal advantages of living in your station’s section house is that it is cheap, close to work and it’s not your parents’ flat. The disadvantages are that you’re sharing your accommodation with people too weakly socialised to live with normal human beings, and who habitually wear heavy boots. The weak socialisation makes opening the fridge an exciting adventure in microbiology, and the boots mean that every shift change sounds like an avalanche.
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I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet-tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows.
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In restoring a house one must first realize its period, feel its personality and try to bring out its good points.
