Nancy Springer Quotes
To be a man, apparently, was to lack the ability to be a woman.
Nancy Springer
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
Tao Lin
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Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.
Sam Houston
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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
Og Mandino
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.
Naomie Harris
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It's true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.
Caitriona Balfe
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Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.
Oscar Peterson
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The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.
Kate Thompson
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I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.
Bam Margera
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When I was working on my Ph.D., I developed a computer algorithm to look for rapid changes in populations' DNA. Our DNA changes constantly over generations, but if certain changes spread through a population more quickly than others, they are probably the beneficial results of natural selection. This is the protection we give ourselves to survive.
Pardis Sabeti
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When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.
Edmund White
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My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women.
J. G. Ballard
