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Anna Neagle Quotes

English - Actress | October 20, 1904 - June 3, 1986

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Loneliness Solitude Pleasant

What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?

Winter Rain Sun Flowers Year Long

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

Father Sea Job Brother Wait Better

Everyone needs some time to themselves.

Time Everyone Needs Some Themselves

But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!

Life Learning Opportunity Time Think

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

Alone Learn Necessary Should

Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.

People Me Enough Long Down Grind

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

Success Failure Time Difference Made

But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.

Learning Waiting Wait Feel You Know

If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time.

Work Time Goal Never Fix Just

No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

Family Love Water Moment Solitude

But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.

Solitude Planning Think Dreaming

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