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12 quotes by Anna Neagle

Dame Anna Neagle, DBE (20 October 1904 – 3 June 1986), born Florence Marjorie Robertson, was a popular English stage and film actress and singer. Neagle proved to be a box-office sensation in British films for over 25 years and was voted the most popular star in Britain in 1949. She was noted for providing glamour and sophistication to war-torn London audiences with her lightweight musicals, comedies and historical dramas. She won several awards...
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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... →

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Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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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But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.

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Everyone needs some time to themselves.

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

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So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

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

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