Nancy Wilson Quotes
Ann and I were the main writers in Heart. We had the leadership role, and the guys in the band sometimes had a hard time with that.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
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I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
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I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
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In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go.
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I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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The press called me a billionaire, and my wife came up and said I must be squirreling money away.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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Don't let despair mutate your flesh Look at my twisted stumps of thought See the fingers, listen to the voice I am slowly becoming the end of the line.
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In this room I have picked which gun was unloaded out of ten options. And then they pulled the trigger on me. I have picked stocks that went on to skyrocket. I have picked which pencil I would shove into Ms. Robertson’s ear until she kicked me out for thinking about it.
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I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.
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Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.
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Actors need to know why they're saying what they're saying, more than just learning their lines.
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Ann and I were the main writers in Heart. We had the leadership role, and the guys in the band sometimes had a hard time with that.
