Nancy Willard Quotes
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.
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I have friends who are science journalists, and I'm seeing stories of theirs or talking with them about ideas that they're pitching. Certain kinds of science are around me all the time, like climate change and biology.
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Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
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Rather than a horror film, a ghost story is different because a ghost is what you can't quite see.
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When you first arrive in India, you think, 'God, these Indians treat their servants so badly! How awful!' It's something in the air, and something about the way people are, that very few people hold out. I wasn't able to. Everybody goes local. You stop saying 'thank you' and things like that.
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Gratitude is a humble emotion. It expresses itself in a thousand ways, from a sincere thank you to friend or stranger, to the mute, up-reaching acknowledgment to God--not for the gifts of this day only, but for the day itself; not for what we believe will be ours in the future, but for the bounty of the past.
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What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and embracing it?
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Faith takes root in the insignificant.