Nancy Willard Quotes
When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
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I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.
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Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
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If a movie doesn't even have financing yet, they'll do a table read for it at a casting director's office with actors, for the producer and the writer, just to hear if the movie is working.
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My whole philosophy has been to let the work speak for itself, because that's really what you want to show.
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A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.
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When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
