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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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.
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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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Sometimes you think that you need to be perfect, that you cannot make mistakes ... realize you are a human being - like everyone else capable of reaching great potential but not capable of being perfect.
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And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.
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My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.
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In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery.
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[On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.
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What one heart finds hard to believe, a hundred find easy.
