Nancy Lancaster Quotes
Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without overemphasis.
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The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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Who buys French cars? Not me.
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I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.
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I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.
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And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
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Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
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What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play.
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I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.
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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
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I gotta say, I know my strengths, and I know my weaknesses, and, well, Fix-It Felix, I'm not too far from that kid.
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If you ever watch police chases on, like, helicopter cams, they very quickly become nightmarish when you start to see the police coming in from the edge of the frame. I always find that terrifying.
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My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.
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I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.
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The bedrock of 'Being Human' has to be characters. I would hope that even if suddenly we had a huge budget per episode, the foundation of the show, and the thing that actually makes it what it is, is character.
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If death had only negative aspects, dying would be an unmanageable action.
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Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression.
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If someone asks for a soft drink at a party, we no longer think he is a wimp.
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Everything we do, you see, has its consequences and repercussions, every kind act, and every bad, every friend we make, and every enemy. Everything is connected.
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Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat.
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In the midst of conflict, there is absolutely nothing that produces gains as dramatically as listening.
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My whole life is a dark room. One big dark room.
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Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without overemphasis.
