Nancy Willard Quotes
But kids who don't have positive real-world relationships will use online social communities to find those kinds of relationships. They're more vulnerable to the dangers present there.
Quotes to Explore
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I like sitting close to windows.
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I just want to do my job.
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.
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I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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As I tell young people in workshops, 'It's your country. If you came here on the bottom of a slave ship, if your people came here seeking political freedom – however your folks got here – it belongs to you just as much as it belongs to anyone, so claim it. It's your birthright. America belongs to every person who is here.'
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I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty.
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But kids who don't have positive real-world relationships will use online social communities to find those kinds of relationships. They're more vulnerable to the dangers present there.
