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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I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.
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I think people assumed because of my last name that I was a real right-winger. And if you cared to look at my writing, you would be hard pressed to deduce that I'm an ideological right-winger.
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Surfing big waves is not an extreme sport to me. I fall off, tumble down, and come up. My heart's racing because I'm thinking I almost drowned, and I thank God I can breathe again, but I always think, 'What am I hitting?' Water.
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I just love comedy, and I honestly believe that laughter transcends everything. If everyone laughed together, laughed more, it would unite the world in peace.
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It wasn't just OK to achieve in my family - it was expected.
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What one heart finds hard to believe, a hundred find easy.
