Nancy Willard Quotes
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If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.
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I want to help people; that's it.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
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I understand how the economy actually works.
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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
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But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
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On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my favorites.
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There is no sin but ignorance.
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Hitler also anticipated modern economic policy . . . by recognizing that a rapid approach to full employment was only possible if it was combined with wage and price controls. That a nation oppressed by economic fear would respond to Hitler as Americans did to F.D.R. is not surprising.
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The way I teach people to sing... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue.
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What one heart finds hard to believe, a hundred find easy.
