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 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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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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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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I was unbelievably lucky.
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I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.
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No man (sic) has learned to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. Length without breadth is like a self-contained tributary having no outward flow to the ocean. Stagnant, still and stale, it lacks both life and freshness. In order to live creatively and meaningfully, our self-concern must be wedded to other concerns.
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Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat.
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There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.
