Anna Neagle Quotes

• 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

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

  Anna Neagle

• Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

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

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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

• 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.

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

  Anna Neagle

• 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.

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• Everyone needs some time to themselves.

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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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• 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

Anna Neagle (12)

Birth:	20th October, 1904
Death:	3rd June, 1986
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actress, Producer, Singer

About

Anna Neagle was born in Forest Gate, London. She 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. 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 as Britain's favourite actress and biggest female box-office draw. Almost all of her films were produced and directed by Herbert Wilcox, whom she married in 1943. In her historical dramas, Anna Neagle was renowned for her portrayals of real-life British heroines, including Nell Gwynn, Queen Victoria and Edith Cavell.

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