Nancy Willard Quotes
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.
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I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
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I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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While I deeply admire actors who deeply prepare, it's just not something I do.
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Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.
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Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
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I tend to be really competitive when it comes to Scattergories.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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They can say I have an opinion about something.
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We aren't really called to save the world-not even to save one person; Jesus does that. We are just called to love with abandon. We are called to enter into our neighbors' sufferings and love them right there.
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I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
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What marketers used to do is make average products for average people. That's what mass marketing is. They would ignore the geeks, and - God forbid - the laggards. It was all about going for the center. I don't think that's the strategy we want to use anymore.
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We don't really understand something until we have forgotten it.
