Nancy Milford Quotes
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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I've got a condo in Miami, but I don't live in it.
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When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
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Tech is all about building human connections.
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Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.
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Everyones childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand.
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The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.
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I was given the task of I.P.L. Chairmanship which I tried to perform to the best of my abilities. The tournament was organised well despite all the controversies. The stadiums were jam-packed, which proved that I.P.L. was still popular.
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People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
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There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.
