Nancy Milford Quotes
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I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
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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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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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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'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
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I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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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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How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are.
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One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.
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I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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I would really love theater. I would love to do Shakespeare, that would be amazing. You know, it's whatever really comes my way.
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There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.
