Nancy Wilson Quotes
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.
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Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
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Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.
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Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.
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Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them.
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We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.
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Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.
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If I don't think about anything and just sing sincerely, it could be the best, but at the same time of singing sincerely, I must also add my own thinking and measure in, to be able to maintain and sing this way is my dream, and it is also the biggest problem.
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If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.
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I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.
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My favorite movie is 'The Women' from 1939. It's been my favorite movie since I was like 12 years old. I love the dialogue, really. It's just a lot of really strong female performances. Rosalind Russell kills it, you know.
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A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.
