Nancy Meyers Quotes
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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I am a Westerner of Westerners!
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I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on the person, to be insulting, but I have no trouble being insulting to the work.
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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
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Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.
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I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.
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God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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I like the concept of an anti-muse, though I'm not quite sure what that is. If there is such a thing in my life, I suppose it is just this weariness, this sense that it is more fulfilling not to exist, to efface all traces, than to limit oneself to the determined expression of manifestation.
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I went straight from high school to Bible college for two years. Then I started doing music right out of Bible college full time. I did independent stuff for three years.
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But the gray and the cold are haunted by a beauty akin to pain, by a sense of a something wanted that never will come again.
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A lot of playcalls are for the corner 3. I thought that's something I should really work on.
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What are you doing here?" she asked. "You forgot something when you left Halstead Hall," he said hoarsely. "What?" Her heart lept into her throat as he strode purposefully toward her. "Me.
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I really wanted to be a writer.
