Nancy A. Collins Quotes
I became a horror fan during the early 1960s, back when Hammer was putting out their groundbreaking 'Dracula' series with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, and grew up watching 'Dark Shadows.'
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
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Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.
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If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.
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If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be unknown, putting it all on the paper.
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Country music is one of those places where we support each other and prop each other up.
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I became a horror fan during the early 1960s, back when Hammer was putting out their groundbreaking 'Dracula' series with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, and grew up watching 'Dark Shadows.'
