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Nancy Friday Quotes

I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: August 27, 1933 - November 5, 2017

Topics

Family Good Age Community Together

I'm kind of harsher than most people.

Jennifer Coolidge

People Kind Most Than

I loved riding bikes and horses. I was eight when I started having lessons, and when my father bought me my own horse I couldn't wait to go off on my own.

Father Me Wait Loved Horse Go

Writing plays fast and loose with the past.

Past Writing Fast Loose Plays

I'm not asking the public to trust me; I'm asking the public to trust themselves.

Trust Me Asking Trust Me Public

Comedy's my outlet for my ridiculous emotions.

Comedy Emotions Ridiculous Outlet

My goal has always been to make classic records, classic albums. Sometimes the recording process and the era it was recorded in means the production leans in a particular way, but to me they are all part of the same process.

Me Process Goal Sometimes Way Same

I do a lot of biking. I need that mileage and the long-distance stuff because tennis demands it. My fitness trainer is always trying to convince me to do an Ironman. I can probably run the marathon, I can make the 112 miles on the bike, but I will never swim for 2.4 miles. I will die after 100 meters.

Fitness Bike Me Die Trying I Can

Acting was always there in my mind, but I never tried too hard to take it up. I had to pay my bills, so I did whatever came my way. Music happened first, so I took it up quite passionately.

Music Mind Acting Way Never First

Like many of my friends in the Pakistani diaspora - and many of my friends in Pakistan itself, for that matter - I have sometimes looked at the country of my birth and wondered whether its future will be one of steady and sad decline.

Future Sad Friends Country Sometimes

'Paranoia' was pretty awesome because it was the cast of 'Air Force One,' Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford back together, pitted against each other again, so that was pretty neat.

Together Back Air Force Awesome Air

People are flooded with information every day, and normal guys everywhere try valiantly to stay up with all the technology. But they can't quite do it. I know how those guys feel.

Technology Day People Information Up

I remember when I was rehearsing 'Scottsboro Boys,' I was in 'American Idiot,' so, every night, I was screaming, singing these high, belty Cs and Ds, and then, during the day, I would be doing these legato lines - I am very lucky that I have had the training that I have so that I could handle all of that.

Day Training I Am Singing Night

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