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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My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed me. I woke up when I was breastfeeding my own child thinking, 'How can a woman feel an attachment to a child without breast-feeding?'
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Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they are the hardest things to write, but those are often the things that are worth investigating by you specifically. . .
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I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.
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Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.
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'T is sweet, as year by year we loseFriends out of sight, in faith to museHow grows in Paradise our store.
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Faith takes root in the insignificant.
