Nancy Wilson Quotes
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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I believe that writers have a responsibility to evolve the language, whether by introducing new words or new usages. Shakespeare alone is responsible for something like 3400 words and phrases.
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I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
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There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
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I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
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I want to be a soldier as my father was.
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The Swiss can be very difficult.
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No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.
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I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.
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I can be shy, but I'm not shy with my body. Everyone is naked under their clothes - so what?
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.
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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
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My favorite acoustic is the Nancy Wilson Signature Martin.
