Nancy Mitford Quotes
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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I'm not educated about cinema or genres.
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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
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Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems.
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Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold.
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I love drama - mum calls me a Drama Queen!
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Them gas prices are higher than a bus load of Mexicans at the Los Lobos concert.
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Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. … Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.
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From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn't mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.
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When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.
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Clothe me entire in the final filament, So that I tremble with such love so known And myself am precious for your perfecting.
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Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.
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I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore.
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Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.
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The authorized biographers - the ones hand-picked to write the sanitized version of a subject's life - sit up front with the swells while the unauthorized biographer who writes without access or approval gets elbowed to the back of the bus.
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I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.
