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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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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This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it.
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I didn't go to church, I didn't go to synagogue; I went to temple, Hindu temple, where I prayed to my Hindu gods - whether or not I believe in it is another story.
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For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book.
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I find it too terrifying to go out in L.A.
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We don't really understand something until we have forgotten it.
