Nancy Pickard
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But, the idea of being famous is ac... EMILY MEADE When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a ... ATO ESSANDOH I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't ch... CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I appreciate the idea that anybody would think of me as a star. But I'm really not career orient... LANCE HENRIKSEN A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to... IAN MILLAR Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame. PETER CAREY 'The Host' is very much in the same vein as 'Twilight', and there's clearly a hu... MAX IRONS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu... ZARA PHILLIPS HEATH LEDGER EDDIE VAN HALEN I'm not like Henry Fonda. He lives to act. I've just had a dedication to do the best I could... DON AMECHE As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an ... YOUNG JEEZY I'm not on Twitter or Facebook. I've never been interested in being on any of them. I don... HANNAH WARE I'm not a big star in Japan. I'm an actor. I have a very normal life. Four days a week, I co... KEN WATANABE TRACEE ELLIS ROSS When you're a kid, I think you want to be a film star. And I'm not as enamoured with that an... ROB BRYDON EVANGELINE LILLY ELLIE GOULDING VICTORIA BECKHAM It's nice to have a few names. I use a few names myself. I use a few different surnames. I call ... AIDAN GILLEN ZADIE SMITH SONAKSHI SINHA For me, I would prefer to not have my face on the album cover. I don't mind being in the public,... FLUME KRISTEN STEWART I'm elected. I don't report to any politician. I report to the people. If I had to report to... JOE ARPAIO MICHELLE BACHELET You can't compete with hip-hop. That doesn't mean I don't want to be as big as a rap sta... BRANDON FLOWERS DAVID O. RUSSELL If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether ... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a p... AARON JOHNSON I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX ANDY WARHOL When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing... ADAM RAPP ELLE MACPHERSON I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story. ZOEY DEUTCH JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE I don't think of myself as a movie star. I'm a movie worker. I come from a railroad family. ... BILL MOSELEY Nah, I'm not a prima donna, but I just don't like being cold and wet. MORRIS CHESTNUT EMMA THOMPSON I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don&#... PATRICIA RIGGEN CHARLI XCX MICHAEL J. FOX URSULA K. LE GUIN DYLAN MORAN I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients. AL ALVAREZ Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame... KATE BOSWORTH I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm ... IAN RANKIN One of the ironies of being a professional writer is that, if you are even moderately successful, th... JANE LINDSKOLD There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every... BILL PARCELLS I'm not a neat freak. I don't mind things being messy but I mind them being dirty. I just ca... LEAH REMINI I find my vocabulary is quite a lot better when I'm hungover. I feel like I unlock a key of word... ELLA EYRE LAURA MVULA MOBY People get DUIs, people get in fights with their boyfriends, it happens, life happens, but it's ... LESLIE BIBB I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that the... SAM WORTHINGTON I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods. That's... AIDAN QUINN WILL ROGERS DAVE GROHL MICHAEL EISNER When I'm sick of myself, and when I don't know what to say as a solo artist, I can write a s... JENNY LEWIS BOOTSY COLLINS NEAL ASHER I'm far from being reclusive. I have 30- or 40-year friendships that I prefer to meeting new peo... KIRK KERKORIAN I don't think of myself as being troubled as a human being, but I guess I'm quite extreme, q... BEN DANIELS I'm a homing pigeon. When I'm in Tallahassee, I give everything I have to being, hopefully, ... DAN WEBSTER HARRISON FORD I have a real passion for playing a role that's a strong female character, that's just not t... MISSY PEREGRYM KELLY CLARKSON DAVID MORSE RUBY ROSE I'm not interested in characters who aren't broken. I'm not interested in happy people. ... JOHN LOGAN I can't wait to see The Grinch. It's so out of the world. Every time a movie like that comes... TINA YOTHERS J. J. WATT As a jobbing actor, I never get a script and go 'I can't be bothered with this.' Life do... EVE MYLES I like to think that I'm not as ominous in real life. DANIEL DAE KIM DAVID COOK BILLY CORGAN GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I'm a real relationship person - contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm... SIENNA MILLER I don't miss the limelight, not at all. I'm just more comfortable out of it. I don't mis... DON MEREDITH I'm not a huge scary movie kind of guy; like, I don't do slasher movies, because I'm rea... BRENDAN ROBINSON WARREN BENNIS I don't think I'm particularly shy. I just don't like being front and center as myself. BEN FOSTER HUGH JACKMAN
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Everybody knows now that Marie Lightfoot, the true crime writer, is dating Franklin DeWeese, the sta... NANCY PICKARD I'm Marie Lightfoot, or at least that's the name my publisher puts on the covers of the book... NANCY PICKARD I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling o... NANCY PICKARD I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'. NANCY PICKARD I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. ... NANCY PICKARD I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching... NANCY PICKARD It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk abou... NANCY PICKARD I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers. NANCY PICKARD I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things close... 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DAVID PICKARD This is the first time in the history of the school that a team has gone to the Final Four in back-t... DAVID PICKARD We had to establish what we do best. They play hard and are always giving 110 percent. DAVID PICKARD I told our guys we had to play through the fouls. We could have easily folded and gotten frustrated,... DAVID PICKARD One of the things I'm blessed with is that I can go 10-11 deep. I'm able to rotate speed in there an... DAVID PICKARD I think we played a good defense, and got a lot of pressure on the ball early. DAVID PICKARD He's a good shooter and he's only a 10th-grader. We go to him when we need a clutch basket. DAVID PICKARD It's nice to get the kids involved. They can come out and get dirty and it's OK. HOWARD PICKARD It happened in the 11th hour. It was a spur of the moment thing, but it turned out wonderfully. HOWARD PICKARD It's come as you are. It's a lot of fun. You get out in the air. It grows on you. You get to talk wi... HOWARD PICKARD There are other John Deere clubs. But they didn't want other colors. So we started something everyon... HOWARD PICKARD NANCY GIBBS NANCY PELOSI NANCY PEARCEY I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But ev... NANCY FRIDAY NANCY GRACE NANCY PELOSI A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They a... NANCY KRESS NANCY WILLARD NANCY WILLARD NANCY WILLARD NANCY WERLIN NANCY WERLIN NANCY WERLIN NANCY WERLIN NANCY WERLIN NANCY WERLIN NANCY WERLIN NANCY WERLIN I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural. NANCY WAKE I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men... NANCY WAKE I adored my father. NANCY WAKE I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as t... NANCY TRAVIS I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with... NANCY TRAVIS The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are n... NANCY TRAVIS To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing thin... NANCY TRAVIS I want to do a show about a woman who's juggling a career with a relationship. NANCY TRAVIS I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television. NANCY TRAVIS 'The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a g... NANCY TRAVIS I love zoo sanctuaries. NANCY TRAVIS No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart. NANCY THAYER The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serend... NANCY THAYER Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll b... NANCY SINATRA I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to. NANCY SINATRA I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked a... NANCY SINATRA I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound. NANCY SINATRA I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house. NANCY SINATRA I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attentio... NANCY SINATRA I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family too... NANCY SINATRA His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the ... NANCY SINATRA Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them. NANCY SINATRA Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip... NANCY SINATRA I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cru... NANCY SINATRA After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird sit... NANCY SINATRA There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer. NANCY SINATRA Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his ... NANCY SINATRA It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised. NANCY SINATRA I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never go... NANCY SINATRA I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music. NANCY SINATRA Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey op... NANCY SINATRA The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It... NANCY SINATRA I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and... NANCY SINATRA After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these l... NANCY SINATRA What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else,... NANCY SINATRA I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of creden... NANCY SINATRA I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research uni... NANCY ROMAN At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so op... NANCY ROMAN I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that... NANCY ROMAN My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own i... NANCY ROMAN It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientifi... NANCY ROMAN I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young a... NANCY ROMAN Looking through the atmosphere is somewhat like looking through a piece of old, stained glass. The g... NANCY ROMAN One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientis... 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NANCY MEYERS I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't kno... NANCY MEYERS I really wanted to be a writer. NANCY MEYERS My movies are not messed with by the studios. NANCY MEYERS I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and ... NANCY MEYERS I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, what's the point? NANCY MEYERS We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row ... NANCY MEYERS There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You&#... NANCY MEYERS Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all... NANCY MEYERS I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all... NANCY MEYERS I've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Pr... 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I don't care what people think of me, unless they think I'm mean or something, but I don'... 
I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'... 
It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you... 
I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I... 
I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes... 
I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much.... 
I don't mind being the center of attention as a character but in real life it's not for me. 
Siren voices tell me, 'You don't have to keep going on.' And then you think, 'I'... 
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sittin... 
I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing to... 
I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask ... 
I don't always feel fierce and fearless, but I do feel like I'm a rock star at being human. 
I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word 'feminism... 
I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts... 
I like to make the best of what I have. I'm not a supermodel, clearly. I'm not a makeup arti... 
I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't li... 
I love my job. But I like to have fun at work. So I don't get finicky if one strand of hair is s... 
I like being in movies that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star.... 
When I'm speaking of love, when I'm speaking of reversing hate, I'm speaking not only of... 
The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get thr... 
I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was... 
You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women i... 
When I'm not on stage, I'm kind of shy. If you see me and I don't say much, don't th... 
I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but... 
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I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accep... 
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. 
I'm really not big on nationalism, to be honest with you. I really don't think it gets peopl... 
Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's makin... 
I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful. 
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight year... 
I'm kind of claustrophobic... It's not even like enclosed spaces. It's like I hate being... 
Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic... 
Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don'... 
I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm t... 
I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not ... 
The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like th... 
I don't like talking about myself. I'm not really interested in myself. One of the good thin... 
Gender fluidity is not really feeling like you're at one end of the spectrum or the other. For t... 
If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one o... 
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James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty f... 
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I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays be... 
I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have poster... 
The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top... 
When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high... 
Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacen... 
All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on m... 
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying a... 
When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince inst... 
I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Ma... 
Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenag... 
I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us. 
I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice. 
I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them. 
Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladd... 
Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom. 
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I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I... 
I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away. 
I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid. 
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There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house,... 
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Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, bu... 
Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are s... 
I loved junior golf. 
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Our players are mad, but it's good mad. 