There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.


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I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is ...
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenag...
NANCY WERLIN
There was a mission: To match the cover of 'Extraordinary' to the cover of the paperback ...
NANCY WERLIN
I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's te...
NANCY WERLIN
No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book ...
NANCY WERLIN
'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fair...
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