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Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

~Anna Neagle

Topics: Loneliness Pleasant Solitude

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What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?

~Anna Neagle

Topics: All Year Away Bloom Chilly Country Days Far Far Away Few Flowers Like Lived Long Matter Never Rain Sometimes Sun Weeks Where Winter Wonder Would Year

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I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

~Anna Neagle

Topics: After Again Alan Always Better Better Job Brother Chance Curtains Difficult Even Father Found Job Long New Sailor Sea See Things Trips Wait Whether

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Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.

~Anna Neagle

Topics: Anxious Could Dancer Down Enough Get Grind Impatient Jobs Knew Long Me Naturally Older Older People People Quickly Talked Terribly Those Top Turned Who Young Ahead

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But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!

~Anna Neagle

Topics: Anticipation Big Big Things Growing Horizons Instead Learn Learning Life Open Opportunity Out Passing Spend Things Think Time Waiting Wonderful

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The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

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Topics: Between Difference Failure Had Made Success Time Waited

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But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.

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Topics: About Feel Important Important Thing Know Learning Sure Thing Wait Waiting You I Feel

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If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time.

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Topics: Fix Goal Just Never Passing Then Time Towards Work

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Everyone needs some time to themselves.

~Anna Neagle

Topics: Everyone Needs Some Themselves Time

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No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

~Anna Neagle

Topics: Because Changes Core Define Each Family Family And Friends Friends How How Much Inmost Love Matter Moment Much Needs Never Nobody Occasional Our Part Plant Recognize Solitude Us Water Which

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actress

Born: October 20th, 1904

Died: June 3rd, 1986

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