Anna Neagle Professions : Film actress Born : October 20, 1904 Died : June 3, 1986 Browse All Authors Top 13 quotes by Anna Neagle But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for. Anna Neagle important waiting feels 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 family-and-friends solitude water 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 waiting opportunity thinking Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not. Anna Neagle being-lonely solitude loneliness If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time. Anna Neagle time-passing passings goal The most brilliant actor that I have ever worked with. I've liked others very much more. Anna Neagle brilliant actors But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning. Anna Neagle solitude dream thinking 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 brother jobs father So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone. Anna Neagle should 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 jobs long people 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 flower rain country Everyone needs some time to themselves. Anna Neagle needs The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure. Anna Neagle difference failure success time Similar Authors Isabella Rossellini film-actress Izabella Scorupco film-actress Betty Buckley film-actress Bipasha Basu film-actress Butterfly McQueen film-actress Bryce Dallas Howard film-actress All Authors
