Nancy Spain Quotes
It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.
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I think a person has to just be herself.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
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Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
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The little boy inside of all us men always loves something video game related.
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Children touch all of our lives. We all have the opportunity to sow seeds into the next generation, and there's nothing more important that we can leave on this earth than a legacy of faith, hope, and confidence in our God.
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Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.
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Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.
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I had to turn down a part in 'Empire of the Sun.' It would have paid £15,000, which was a year's earnings for me then, but I was offered a season at the 'National Theatre.'
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I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed.
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I'm happy going home early and working out and just being a mother and being a wife.
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The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.
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People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.
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For the most part, I was surprised by the representation of female characters onscreen. I do hope that when we include more female storytellers, we will have more of the women that I recognize in my day to day life.
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I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.
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The debate over same sex 'marriage' has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans.
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I'm not interested in business for business's sake.
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Circumcision is obligatory for Jewish-born males - it must be performed on the eighth day after birth and is only postponed in the case of threat to the life or health of the child. Muslim parents also circumcise their male children.
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I'd rather be good than lucky.
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The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.
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I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.
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It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.
