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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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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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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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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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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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.
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If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.
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It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.
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Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
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There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
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For suppose that every tool we had could perform its task, either at our bidding or itself perceiving the need, and if-like the statues made by Dædalus or the tripods of Hephæstus, of which the poet says that "self-moved they enter the assembly of the gods" - shuttles in a loom could fly to and fro and a plectrum play a lyre all self-moved, then master-craftsmen would have no need of servants nor masters of slaves.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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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.
