Nancy Werlin Quotes
Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.
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There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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I got an offer at 'Vogue.' And I desperately wanted to work in magazines. My interest wasn't in fashion, but when you get an offer right out of college for a magazine that big - I decided that it was probably better to start at a big name magazine, even if I wasn't necessarily fascinated with the subject.
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I grew up in suburban New York, and my family wasn't much on traveling, so when I arrived at my alma mater, The Colorado College, I'd never been out West before, seen a 14,000-foot mountain, experienced snow in 70-degree weather, or come into contact with something called a 'dude.'
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Ringo is one of the world's true humans. The only one out those four guys, who did not have an agenda. Ringo was just into the music.
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At readings, audience members sometimes ask if I keep writing past the two hours if I'm on a roll, but I don't. I figure that if I'm on a roll, it's partially because I know I'm about to stop.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
