Nancy Pickard Quotes
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.
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When I'm a bit sad, I often go for a drive in the country, quite fast with my music up.
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
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I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
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When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
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I play for India, I play for the 100 million people of my country.
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
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I spoke with Abramovich. He is very simple and loves football. We were on the same wavelength: he wants to confirm Chelsea's position at the top.
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As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
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We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.
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Big stories need human stakes.
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The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.
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My first concert was pretty memorable - Deep Purple at 14. I had a really good childhood, I got along with my parents. I never rebelled. Pretty much all of it was cool. I wouldn't change any of it.
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If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates of materialism and secularity, then the raw spirit truth of our native land is alive and radiant by comparison. For joy and meaning we might well turn to our natural country and witness miracles of vitality and new life, of inspiration and profound beauty; all in some humble, quiet and improbable place.
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I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.
