Nancy Willard Quotes

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• If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Road
  • Internet
  • Name

• I wanted to stay on a career path of the likes of Natalie Portman. I didn't want to be pigeonholed into a certain genre. I sort of believe that slow and steady wins the race.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • Believe
  • Career
  • Path

• We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • People
  • More
  • Act

• The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

  

  Garrett Graff
  • Positive
  • Influence
  • Media

• You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Want
  • Need

• My wife and I have very deep roots in Colorado, and we can't see ourselves living anywhere else.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Wife
  • Deep
  • Roots

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• I've never been a calm, midrange type person.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Never
  • Person
  • Calm

• Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Power
  • Easy
  • Take Advantage

• When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.

  

  Maidie Norman
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Thought

• One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Many
  • Did
  • Dictators

• I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Literature

• Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• It was a great privilege for me and my teammates to follow in the footsteps of sporting greats like Roger Federer and Tiger Woods.

  

  Ma Long
  • Privilege
  • Teammates
  • Footsteps

• I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.

  

  Kate Dickie
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• What's frustrating to me is when, on a low-budget movie, people don't take chances. A big-budget movie, that script's your bible; nobody's going to risk going off the page. But when you're doing a very low-budget film, why not take some chances, intellectually, artistically?

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • People
  • Why
  • Movie

• What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • People
  • Believe
  • Together

• No, this trick won't work. The same trick does not work twice. How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Important
  • Love
  • Explain

• I wrote an album about being in love. I don't think it's possible to write an album while you're in love - why on earth would you bother? I mean, Christ. If you're in there writing songs about someone rather than just being with them and kissing their every molecule, surely the person that you're with must be asking some questions as well.

  

  Gary Lightbody Snow Patrol
  • Questions
  • Album
  • Being In Love

• Nichelle Nichols had decided leave the original Star Trek series after the first season. Fed up with racist harassment and limitation, culminating with her learning that studio executives were withholding her fan mail, she submitted her resignation. She withdrew it when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. convinced her that her role was too important a cultural breakthrough to leave.

  

  Grace Dell Nichols
  • Important
  • Convinced
  • Limitation

• When you get into the final week of the Tour de France, it becomes a different kind of race. As the distance and the fatigue really tell, that is when it becomes a proper test of everyone's fitness.

  

  Bradley Wiggins
  • Different
  • Distance
  • Fitness

• Don't worry," I repiled, "I usually don't argue with the voices.

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Worry
  • Voice
  • Arguing

• Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

  

  Nancy Willard
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