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Anna Neagle
English
Actress
About the author
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,
English
Actress
#Love
#Family
#Needs
#Friends
#Water
#Solitude
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,
English
Actress
#People
#Jobs
If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time.
Anna Neagle,
English
Actress
#Time
#Work
#Goal
Everyone needs some time to themselves.
Anna Neagle,
English
Actress
#Time
#Needs
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,
English
Actress
#Wonder
#Country
#Flowers
#Sun
#Rain
#Winter
But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.
Anna Neagle,
English
Actress
#Planning
#Enjoyment
#Solitude
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,
English
Actress
#Time
#Life
#Open
#Opportunity
#Learning
#Waiting
#Anticipation
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,
English
Actress
#Chance
#Job
#Father
#Sea
#Brother
But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.
Anna Neagle,
English
Actress
#Learning
#Waiting
The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.
Anna Neagle,
English
Actress
#Time
#Success
#Failure
#Difference
Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.
Anna Neagle,
English
Actress
#Loneliness
#Solitude
So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.
Anna Neagle,
English
Actress