Nancy Reagan Quotes
Don't say I was tough. I was strong. I had to be, because Ronnie liked everybody and sometimes didn't see - or refused to see - what the people around him were really up to. But everything I did, I did for Ronnie. I did for love.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
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You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest.
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It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
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Writing is an addiction more powerful than alcohol, than nicotine, than crack. I could not conceive of not writing.
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If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.
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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
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Sometimes you feel like it's cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don't know if it's going to really come out.
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While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.
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Don't say I was tough. I was strong. I had to be, because Ronnie liked everybody and sometimes didn't see - or refused to see - what the people around him were really up to. But everything I did, I did for Ronnie. I did for love.
