Nana Mouskouri Quotes
There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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I feel I'm doing God's work switching people from group plans to individual insurance.
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I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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The first willing concert I went to was Aerosmith when I was like 14.
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The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
