Anna Neagle
Anna Neagle
Dame Anna Neagle, DBE, born Florence Marjorie Robertson, was a popular English stage and film actress and singer and dancer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActress
Date of Birth20 October 1904
difference english-actress success time waited
The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.
waiting important feels
But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.
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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.
opportunity thinking waiting
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!
loneliness solitude being-lonely
Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.
actors brilliant
The most brilliant actor that I have ever worked with. I've liked others very much more.
dream thinking solitude
But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.
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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.
should
So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.
goal passing passings
If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time.
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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?
needs
Everyone needs some time to themselves.