Nancy Kress Quotes
If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.Nancy Kress
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I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
Maia Mitchell -
I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.
Rachel Sklar -
Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
Ma Ying-jeou -
I've dealt with a lot in my life.
Daniel Cormier -
I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.
Idris Elba -
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso
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I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can't do that, you should leave them alone.
Irvine Welsh -
Younger customers are the future, but older customers have the money. So you need both: one for the present, and the other for the future.
Uday Kotak -
If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.
Owen Hart -
I am a Westerner of Westerners!
Taylor Caldwell -
Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
I went through a phase where I loved tattoos, and I loved the feeling of getting tattooed.
Dakota Johnson
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I think just being on 'One Tree Hill' has given me a lot of confidence.
Kate Voegele -
The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.
Questlove -
I was born Roman, and I'll die Roman. I'll never leave this team or my city.
Francesco Totti -
I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
M. Russell Ballard -
Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
W. C. Fields -
The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
Garth Brooks
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The translators of the Bible were masters of an English style much fitter for that work than any we see in our present writings; the which is owing to the simplicity that runs through the whole.
Jonathan Swift -
The important aspect shouldn't be whose administration it is, the important aspect should be how does the state of Wisconsin work, what can we do to move Wisconsin forward.
Scott McCallum -
If you call 'religious' a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really.
Viktor E. Frankl -
I was never afraid on stage. That's where I was the least afraid. I could just do what I do and I had the amplification and the lights.
Christopher Bollen -
You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.
Kary Mullis -
If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.
Nancy Kress