Nantucket Quotes

• Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks.

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  Ilana Mercer

  Nantucket   Privilege   Politician  

  "In Defense of the Fence". www.wnd.com. April 04, 2008.

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• Nantucket is a place where some kind of magic happens, it's where I met my husband 32 years ago, and we've been together since the day we met. It's the kind of place that when people come here, they think they'll be happy. I see people falling in love or recovering from some conflict here, and I wanted to capture that.

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  Nancy Thayer

  Love   Husband   Fall  

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• People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my basement and gaze out onto a single window that shows me a cement wall. This is a profession, and it's important to have professionalism about the writing.

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  Nathaniel Philbrick

  Wall   Ocean   Inspiration  

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• Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind farms in Nantucket Sound, offshore from his Hyannis Port compound.)

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  Ilana Mercer

  Wind Farms   Sound   Backyards  

  "In Defense Of The Fence". www.wnd.com. April 04, 2008.

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• Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's. For the sea is his; he owns it.

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  Herman Melville

  Texas   Sea   Two  

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.70, Velvet Element Books

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• You see the pictures in the paper today of John Kerry windsurfing? He's at his home in Nantucket this week, doing his favorite thing, windsurfing. Even his hobby depends on which way the wind blows.

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  Jay Leno

  Home   Blow   Wind  

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• For me when I was growing up, some of the happiest times were when we went to a small island called Nantucket off Massachusetts.

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  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Growing Up   Islands   Massachusetts  

  Source: www.stylist.co.uk

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