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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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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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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It is absolutely true that I have served in two Democratic administrations. You can tell something from me and my political views from that.
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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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I had to come out to my mother three times over a twelve-year period, but I first came out to her when I was sixteen. It didn't go over so well, because I grew up in the Pentecostal Church. It was a very strict environment. She has since done a lot of work and has really blown my mind. She has learned about my life and has changed her mind.
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Into what boundless life, does education admit us. Every truth gained through it expands a moment of time into illimitable being--positively enlarges our existence, and endows us with qualities which time cannot weaken or destroy.
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I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.
