Nan Fairbrother Quotes

As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.

Nan Fairbrother

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• My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Real
  • House

• I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Up
  • Good
  • Writing

• Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Good
  • War

• I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Good
  • Language
  • Cutting

• I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • God
  • Mother

• No one today knows what is indecent.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Today
  • Knows
  • Indecent

• For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Know

• In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Real

• People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Good
  • Music
  • Song

• Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Comedy

• I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Good
  • Parents

• Personally, I believe a rocking hammock, a good cigar, and a tall gin-and-tonic is the way to save the planet.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Believe

• It's one of the biggest benefits of being president that you really don't think about until you get here.

  

  Barack Obama
  • President
  • Being
  • Benefits

• My old modus operandi was, if you're going to have a grilled cheese and bacon sandwich, don't have one, have two. If you're going to have vanilla wafers, you have the whole box.

  

  Al Roker

• It's hard to come into a new relationship with food unless you're engaged in an interactive way at an early age; it's hard to change your values.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Age
  • Food
  • Relationship

• I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, 'Hi Dave!'

  

  David Zucker
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Good
  • Real
  • House