Nancy Mairs Quotes
Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.

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I was unbelievably lucky.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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Even as technology becomes increasingly critical to the way we live our lives, power our world and defend our shores, the United States has allowed the production of minerals crucial in the creation of these advanced products to slide.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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That is the meaning of the Trump brand - being the boss who is so rich and so powerful he can do whatever he wants. So the way in which he ran for president was to embody that idea as fully as he possibly could with his outrageousness.
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
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Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
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In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they show the reality of life.
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I want to get away from couture just being done for a picture or for a single moment on the red carpet. I want to try and convince women that couture can be worn in the day and that there's a reality and relevance there, because that's what Mr. Christian Dior wanted.
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I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.
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Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel.
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A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.
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Sometimes, you find the play; sometimes, the play finds you.
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I worry a bit about the unknowns when it comes to travelers to the war zones in Syria and Iraq. Who don't I see? And I worry about the people who may be in their basements radicalizing that I can't see.
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No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.
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Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?
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I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.
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Personally, I'm a V-neck guy.
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The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.
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Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.