Nancy Wilson Quotes
We've never been as active politically as we have been as artists. But politics always brush up against the arts, oh, about every four years in this country.
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
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We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.
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What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.
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I've done a lot of costume dramas and things that are set in the past, and it's great to be able to have things that you can research and material that you can look at.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'
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Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.
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I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
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I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
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While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.
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Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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I used to just take every job that seemed relatively appealing. But now I take a job and it's in the trades the next day - it feels like people are watching and waiting to see what you do, and when you do take a job, attention is noted.
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I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.
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After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.
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We've never been as active politically as we have been as artists. But politics always brush up against the arts, oh, about every four years in this country.
