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
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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
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• 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
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  • 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
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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
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• I love designing bridal. I do not follow trends - I design dresses that are relevant to the times.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Design
  • Follow
  • Relevant

• Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything... death is not... It's the absence of presence, nothing more... the endless time of never coming back... a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes not sound.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Time
  • Game
  • Death

• Not only around our infancyDoth heaven with all its splendors lie;Daily, with souls that cringe and plot,We Sinais climb and know it not.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Heaven
  • Daily

• Socialism and the woman movement are two mighty streams which drag along with them great parts of the firm formations which they touch.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Great

• I know I'm being judged, and anyone who works in the public eye will get some negativity at some point. It can be tough and it hurts. I can be very tough on myself. Occasionally, I hear or read something cruel and I'm shocked.

  

  Deborra-Lee Furness
  • Negativity

• 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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