Nancy Farmer Quotes

I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.

Nancy Farmer

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Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.

Melissa McCarthy

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In Britain, the theatre has traditionally been where the public goes to think about its past and debate its future. The formation of the National Theatre, at the Old Vic, near the South Bank, in 1963, institutionalized the symbolic importance of drama by giving it both a building and state funding.

John Lahr

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The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.

Anita Roddick

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The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

Stephen Hawking

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My approach in general is to take really great care of my skin, but I try not to overdo it and not use too many crazy products.

Mary Helen Bowers

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My dad used to say, 'You have to become part of the machine to beat the machine,' and there's some validity in it. But honestly, even when I'm inside the machine, you still see me. I stick out a little bit.

Michael Shannon

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The oboe is the most maddening thing of all time. I'm struggling to play something that my oboe teacher was doing when she was much younger than I am.

Lola Kirke

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One person's car is another person's scenery.

Jonathan Ive

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It's difficult to be a mother and maintain a career as a performer - but then it's difficult in any industry.

Bonnie Langford

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I didn't know I was cool, but I was very flattered that some of the younger comedy writers came up to talk to me at the Emmys. I found that gratifying.

Bob Newhart

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Timmy Horan was a childhood hero. He was a great distributor, elusive, good stepper, very physical, defensively very sound. What a rounded player.

Brian O'Driscoll

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The purpose of fear, clearly, is to help you get away - which it does. If your heart rate increases, there is more blood pumping so you can use that blood to fuel your muscles to run away. Oxygen is sent to the lungs so you can run fast. Pupils dilating help you see in the dark. All of that prepares your body to fight or escape.

Sy Montgomery

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