Nancy Pickard Quotes
I'm Marie Lightfoot, or at least that's the name my publisher puts on the covers of the books I write about true crime. In classic 'true crime' fashion, my latest one is titled 'Anything to Be Together.'
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.
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I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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Ugh - I wish I could just sit back and watch TV sometimes.
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Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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I don't fetishize objects.
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Theater was definitely part of my roots. My father would take me to plays, and then my mother was always on the lookout for other talent and taking me to see plays. I saw Frank Langella in 'Dracula'... Great, great performances. I was a theater rat, hanging out backstage.
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I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever do sort of come through you. You don't know where you get the impetus and response to what's before your eyes.
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I try to meditate every morning. It relaxes me, clears my mind, and sets my day off on the right foot before things get too manic.
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TRUE! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?
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I'm Marie Lightfoot, or at least that's the name my publisher puts on the covers of the books I write about true crime. In classic 'true crime' fashion, my latest one is titled 'Anything to Be Together.'
