Nancy Wilson Quotes
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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When I hold something that's radioactive, it's kind of an indescribable feeling. It's kind of like when I'm with my girlfriend.
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If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
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Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
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People say McGregor is tall and all that. He's as tall as I am, or maybe even shorter. He might have a longer reach, but I've fought Nate Diaz and Cerrone, who had reach advantage, and fought Anthony Pettis and Ben Henderson.
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By cultivating friendliness towards happiness and compassion towards misery, gladness towards virtue and indifference towards vice, the mind becomes pure.
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Actually, I was gazing in my usual state of being half absent in my own world and half in the present. I have usually been able to 'retire' in this way. I was also thinking that my life was tied up with the instrument and would I do it justice?
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We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues.
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I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - 'Pennies from Heaven' - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.
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I was always drawn to the blues. Alberta Hunter at the Cookery was a life-changing experience. I only wanted to get enriched as a performer as I got older, to have an audience which got older, too, and would come to see me when I'm 80.
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I mean the terrorists are - are like a pimple, like a boil. They'll go away.
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Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.
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I saw Led Zeppelin live for the first time when I was thirteen.
