Nancy Milford Quotes
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If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.
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I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size.
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I got worries by the ton, getting cancer's only one. Over taxed and alimonied, tired of eating fried baloney.
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When the night falls, my lonely heart calls.
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He's doing nothing different except not going to work. His life is still the same.
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Joy and sadness come by turns.
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I thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along.
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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No, nothing,' said Dumbledore, and a great sadness filled his face. 'The time is long gone when I could frighten you with a burning wardrobe and force you to make repayment for your crimes. But I wish I could, Tom... I wish I could.
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Being a Dad is the greatest, except for assembling things.
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It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except for playing guitar and writing words.
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I think the saddest moments in life have humor in them. I have a memory of coming home from a funeral with my family in the back of a limousine and someone cracking a joke and us just hysterically belly laughing. It's how we always dealt with tragedy in our lives and I think it's such a healthy way to deal with sadness.
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I'm not scared of animals, except for rats. I'll break down in tears if I see a rat!
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Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.
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Sadness diminishes a man's powers.
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I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.
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The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away.
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I just find that I enjoy the music that feels like there's a journey to the top of this mountain, then you're at the top of the mountain finally with this magical feeling, and you're stoked because you made it, and you're up there, but there's a little bit of sadness to think of all that you lost along the way to get there. I guess I relate and enjoy the path and the struggle very much.
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They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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I'd like to go out with friends, but I train twice a day, then I go to school, and at night I go home.
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God’s grace is freely available but in order to receive it you have to realize you are lost without it.
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Please don't be depressed: nothing is sad about you except your sadness...
