Nan Fairbrother Quotes

A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.

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• As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

  

  Basil Rathbone
  • People
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• We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Animal
  • Rain

• I'm more interested in producing than acting.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Acting
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  • Interested

• The more questions and answers we get, the more useful Quora is.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
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  • Answers
  • Questions

• One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Words
  • Imagination

• I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Success
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  • Show

• After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Book
  • Words
  • Years

• Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Time
  • Together
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• Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Design

• What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Perfect
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  • Union

• Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Great
  • Man
  • Words

• The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Want
  • Proud
  • Irresponsible

• There's more to life than cheek bones.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • More
  • Bones

• A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Security
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  • Surveillance

• Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled a nuclear plant meltdown and the defeat of Communism. I co-founded a couple of media businesses.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Real
  • Career
  • Myself

• Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Courage
  • inspirational
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• You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • World
  • You
  • More

• Lyricists play with words.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Words
  • Play
  • Lyricists

• Testimony is personal knowledge, based upon the witness of the Holy Ghost, that certain facts of eternal significance are true.

  

  David A. Bednar
  • True
  • Knowledge

• Experience has shown repeatedly that a mathematical theory with a rich internal structure generally turns out to have significant implications for the understanding of the real world, often in ways no one could have envisioned before the theory was developed.

  

  William Thurston
  • Understanding
  • Structure
  • Significant

• Canadians are very proud of me, of my career.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Career
  • Me
  • Proud

• We overweight people, we say terrible things to ourselves. Oh, you wouldn't believe it. 'You fat pig. How can you do this? You're a disgusting jerk.' And that gets you nowhere. That gets you right back into a bowl of pasta fregula.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Believe
  • Overweight
  • Pasta

• A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
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