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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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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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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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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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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For it stirs the blood in an old man’s heart, And makes his pulses fly,To catch the thrill of a happy voice And the light of a pleasant eye.
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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.
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He was as sentimental as Hitler about applause and crowds.
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Nadie puede no ir más allá. Y más allá hay un abismo.
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You beef wit me, I'm-a even the score equally. Take you on Jerry Springer and beat your ass legally.
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Because of my politics, people think I'm anti-American. But I was quite the reverse. What I don't like about the United States is when the government acts like an old, imperial 18th- or 19th-century European power.
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I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.
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Yeah, I was run out of town. They chased me up to the castle of Aberdeen with torches. Just like the Frankenstein monster. And I got away in a hot air balloon. And I came here to Seattle.
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I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
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I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.
