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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.
Francesca Annis

Family, Women, Successful

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
Francesca Annis

Family, Women, Successful

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
Camille Paglia

Music, Art, Future

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.
Marilyn vos Savant

Saying, Writing, While

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.
Loretta Young

Teacher, Another, Everyone

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
Sydney J. Harris

Ignorance, Dangerous, Per

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
Marc Chagall

Heart, Nothing, Almost

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
Billy Connolly

Afraid, Far, Used

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
Karl Lagerfeld

War, School, Bad

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.
Garrison Keillor

Good, Enough, Joy

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.
Ray Charles

Life, Music, Honor

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.
Arthur Erickson

Coming, Innovation, Abroad

Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Decisions, Used, Behavior

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.
Loretta Young

Life, Business, Emotions

Places like Hilton Head, with water adjacency and nice climates, are in high demand, and land values are insane. In the case of Hilton Head, which was developed in 1970 on what had been a mosquito- and alligator-infested swampy barrier island, land value has leaped from nearly zero to now unaffordable.
Susan Orlean

Nice, High, Water

President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity.
Rick Perry

Government, America, Debt

I don't know what I have said. I have answered so many questions and I am so confused I don't know one thing from another. I am telling you just as nearly as I know.
Lizzie Andrew Borden

Confused, Said, Another

I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.
Rod Stewart

Love, Age, Today

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.
Roger Waters

Happy, Game, Far

Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself.
Helena Bonham Carter

Yourself, Impossible, Hear

My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home.
Johnny Vegas

Home, Vacation, Holiday

A kiss with anyone, on or off camera, can be intimidating. I've been kissing for nearly two decades now, and I'm always convinced I'm not doing it right. Chemistry is so important in a great kiss. You can act your way through anything, but it's hard with a kiss.
Rachel McAdams

Great, Important, Hard

This is an exciting time for farmers and ranchers of all types and sizes as agriculture is a bright spot in the American economy. In 2011, agricultural exports hit a record high and producers saw their best incomes in nearly 40 years.
Tom Vilsack

Time, Best, American

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.
Truman Capote

Down, Blood, Cold

Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.
Dennis Prager

American, High, Left

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.
Charles Krauthammer

Trust, Politics, Character

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
Jules Verne

Great, Future, After

Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have a negative effect on the wages of workers in that state.
Eliot Spitzer

Job, Negative, Impossible

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.
E. T. A. Hoffmann

Pass, Improbable

As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are.
Phil McGraw

Children, Parents, Computer

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